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The Principle of Independent Bond-Level Response: Tuning by Pruning to Exploit Disorder for Global Behavior
Carl P Goodrich1, Andrea J Liu1, Sidney R Nagel2
1Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA.
Abstract:
We introduce a principle unique to disordered solids wherein the contribution of any bond to one global perturbation is uncorrelated with its contribution to another. Coupled with sufficient variability in the contributions of different bonds, this "independent bond-level response" paves the way for the design of real materials with unusual and exquisitely tuned properties. To illustrate this, we choose two global perturbations: compression and shear. By applying a bond removal procedure that is both simple and experimentally relevant to remove a very small fraction of bonds, we can drive disordered spring networks to both the incompressible and completely auxetic limits of mechanical behavior.
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