Elastic building blocks for confined sheets

Details Elastic building blocks for confined sheets Elastic building blocks for confined sheets

2010-12-17

arxiv.org/abs/1012.3787v1

PRL 106, 074301 (2011)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to PRL

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.074301

We study the behavior of thin elastic sheets that are bent and strained under the influence of weak, smooth confinement. We show that the emerging shapes exhibit the coexistence of two types of domains that differ in their characteristic stress distributions and energies, and reflect different constraints. A focused-stress patch is subject to a geometric, piecewise-inextensibility constraint, whereas a diffuse-stress region is characterized by a mechanical constraint - the dominance of a single component of the stress tensor. We discuss the implications of our findings for the analysis of elastic sheets that are subject to various types of forcing.

Affiliated with

Also associated with

No associations

Rating

Elastic building blocks for confined sheets does not yet have a rating. At this time, there are no reviews or comments for this scientific paper.

If you have personal experience with Elastic building blocks for confined sheets, we encourage you to share that experience with our LandOfFree.com community. Your opinion is very important and Elastic building blocks for confined sheets will most certainly appreciate the feedback.

Rate now

Comments { 0 }

Profile ID: LFWR-SCP-O-637737