Stiff Polymers, Foams and Fiber Networks

Details Stiff Polymers, Foams and Fiber Networks Stiff Polymers, Foams and Fiber Networks

2005-03-15

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0503359v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 96, 017802 (2006)

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

4 pages, 5 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.017802

We study the elasticity of fibrous materials composed of generalized stiff polymers. It is shown that in contrast to cellular foam-like structures affine strain fields are generically unstable. Instead, a subtle interplay between the architecture of the network and the elastic properties of its building blocks leads to intriguing mechanical properties with intermediate asymptotic scaling regimes. We present exhaustive numerical studies based on a finite element method complemented by scaling arguments.

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