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  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
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  • 1995 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Roderic S. Lakes is affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their research spans engineering and materials science, with a focus on mechanical engineering, mechanics of materials, materials chemistry, biomedical engineering, and polymers and plastics.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Cellular and Composite Structures
  • Nonlocal and gradient elasticity in micro/nano structures
  • Advanced Materials and Mechanics
  • Composite Material Mechanics
  • Elasticity and Material Modeling
  • Thermoelastic and Magnetoelastic Phenomena
  • Polymer composites and self-healing

Roderic S. Lakes has published extensively in several venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • physica status solidi (b)
  • Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik
  • Journal of mechanics of materials and structures
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Composites Part B Engineering

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Roderic S. Lakes include:

  • Nonclassical Chiral Elasticity of the Gyroid Lattice, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Large stiffness thermoformed open cell foams with auxeticity, 2020, Applied Materials Today
  • Bending of kerf chiral fractal lattice metamaterials, 2023, Composite Structures
  • Poisson's Ratio and Modulus of Gyroid Lattices, 2021, physica status solidi (b)
  • The shear performance of uniaxially thermoformed auxetic polymer foams, 2024, Composites Part B Engineering

The scientist collaborates frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Donald S. Stone
  • Fabrizio Scarpa
  • Karan Goyal
  • Qicheng Zhang
  • Dayi Zhang

Roderic S. Lakes received recognition as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1995.

Best Publications

  • Foam structures with a negative poisson's ratio

    Roderic Lakes

  • Poisson's ratio and modern materials

    George Neville Greaves;George Neville Greaves;A. L. Greer;R. S. Lakes;T. Rouxel

  • Materials with structural hierarchy

    Roderic Lakes

  • Properties of a chiral honeycomb with a poisson's ratio of — 1

    D. Prall;R.S. Lakes

  • Extreme damping in composite materials with negative-stiffness inclusions

    R. S. Lakes;T. Lee;A. Bersie;Y. C. Wang

  • Advances in negative Poisson's ratio materials

    Roderic Lakes

  • Deformation mechanisms in negative Poisson's ratio materials : structural aspects

    R. Lakes

  • Indentability of Conventional and Negative Poisson's Ratio Foams

    R.S. Lakes;K. Elms

  • Experimental microelasticity of two porous solids

    R.S. Lakes

  • Negative Poisson's ratio polymeric and metallic foams

    E. A. Friis;R. S. Lakes;J. B. Park

  • Fracture toughness of re-entrant foam materials with a negative Poisson's ratio: experiment and analysis

    J. B. Choi;R. S. Lakes

  • Negative-Poisson's-Ratio Materials: Auxetic Solids

    Roderic S. Lakes

  • Non-linear properties of metallic cellular materials with a negative Poisson's ratio

    J. B. Choi;R. S. Lakes

  • Experimental study of micropolar and couple stress elasticity in compact bone in bending

    J.F.C. Yang;Roderic S. Lakes

  • Nonlinear ligament viscoelasticity.

    Paolo Provenzano;Roderic Lakes;Thomas Keenan;Ray Vanderby

  • EXPERIMENTAL METHODS FOR STUDY OF COSSERAT ELASTIC SOLIDS AND OTHER GENERALIZED ELASTIC CONTINUA

    Roderic Lakes

  • Extreme Damping in Composite Materials with a Negative Stiffness Phase

    R. S. Lakes

  • Cellular solid structures with unbounded thermal expansion

    R. Lakes

  • Dramatically stiffer elastic composite materials due to a negative stiffness phase

    R.S. Lakes;W.J. Drugan

  • Subfailure damage in ligament: a structural and cellular evaluation.

    Paolo P. Provenzano;Dennis Heisey;Kei Hayashi;Roderic Lakes

Frequent Co-Authors

Xiaochun Li
Xiaochun Li University of California, Los Angeles
Sindo Kou
Sindo Kou University of Wisconsin–Madison
A.L. Greer
A.L. Greer University of Cambridge
Vijay K. Goel
Vijay K. Goel University of Toledo
Robert W. Carpick
Robert W. Carpick University of Pennsylvania
William Bonfield
William Bonfield University of Cambridge
Sundaram Gunasekaran
Sundaram Gunasekaran University of Wisconsin–Madison
Judd M. Aiken
Judd M. Aiken University of Alberta
John H. Perepezko
John H. Perepezko University of Wisconsin–Madison

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