Effective medium theory of semiflexible filamentous networks

Details Effective medium theory of semiflexible filamentous networks Effective medium theory of semiflexible filamentous networks

2006-08-08

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0608181v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.038101

We develop an effective medium approach to the mechanics of disordered, semiflexible polymer networks and study the response of such networks to uniform and nonuniform strain. We identify distinct elastic regimes in which the contributions of either filament bending or stretching to the macroscopic modulus vanish. We also show that our effective medium theory predicts a crossover between affine and non-affine strain, consistent with both prior numerical studies and scaling theory.

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