Effects of Morphology and Topology on the Effective Stiffness of Chiral Cellular Materials in the Transverse Plane

Figure 4

Schematic representation of loading conditions based on the listed cases in Table 1 (presented deformations are scaled larger than the actual ones for readability): (a) undeformed hexagonal RVE, (b) deformation under , (c) deformation under , (d) deformation under , (e) undeformed hexagonal-chiral RVE, (f) deformation under , (g) deformation under , and (h) deformation under .

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