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Metamaterials, composed of structural building blocks, derive their effective properties from the structure, rather than from their constituent materials they are built from. By designing and analysing a mechanical unstable metamaterial, the potentials given by structural instabilities are investigated. Furthermore the possibilities in modelling the stability behaviour and the effective properties of such materials on the different length-scales are intensively discussed throughout this work.

microstructured materials --- Metamaterialien --- höhere Kontinuumsmechanik --- homogenization --- Homogenisierung --- metamaterials --- Instabilitäten --- instabilities --- Mikrostrukturierte Materialien --- higher continua