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    Creating materials with poissons ratio higher than 0.5

    Hi, There is a problem with your question. Thermodynamicaly speaking, it is impossible to have a Poisson's ratio higher than 0.5 (included) or lower than -1 (excluded). If so, your material would have a non convex energy function. The 0.5 maximum value is reached for incompressible material...

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