Crackling dynamics in the mechanical response of knitted fabrics, Version 2
arXiv:1803.00815 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.121.058002
Abstract
Crackling noise, which occurs in a wide range of situations, is characterized by discrete events of various sizes, often correlated in the form of avalanches. We report experimental evidence that the mechanical response of knitted fabric displays such broadly distributed events both in the force signal and in the deformation field, with statistics analogous to that of earthquakes or soft amorphous materials. A knit consists of a regular network of frictional contacts, linked by the elasticity of the yarn. When deformed, the fabric displays spatially extended avalanche-like yielding events resulting from collective inter-yarn contact slips. We measure the size distribution of these avalanches, at the stitch level from the analysis of non-elastic displacement fields, and externally from force fluctuations. The two measurements yield consistent power law distributions reminiscent of those found in other avalanching systems. Our study shows that a knitted fabric is not only a thread-based metamaterial with highly sought after mechanical properties, but also an original, model system, with topologically protected structural order, where intermittent, scale-invariant response emerges from minimal ingredients, and thus a significant landmark in the study of out-of-equilibrium universality.
arXiv comment4 pages, 4 figures with 9 Supplementary figures
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