Physics – Condensed Matter – Soft Condensed Matter
Scientific paper
2010-05-06
Physics
Condensed Matter
Soft Condensed Matter
4.1 pages; 3 figures
Scientific paper
Twisted assemblies of filaments in ropes, cables and bundles are essential structural elements in wide use in macroscopic materials as well as within the cells and tissues of living organisms. We develop the unique, non-linear elastic properties of twisted filament bundles that derive from generic properties of two-dimensional line-ordered materials. Continuum elasticity reveals a formal equivalence between the elastic stresses induced by bundle twist and those induced by the positive curvature in thin, elastic sheets. These geometrically-induced stresses can be screened by 5-fold disclination defects in lattice packing, and we predict a discrete spectrum elastic energy groundstates associated with integer numbers of disclinations in cylindrical bundles. Finally, we show that elastic-energy groundstates are extremely sensitive to defect position in the cross-section, with off-center disclinations driving the entire bundle to buckle, adopting globally writhing configurations.
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