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Soft elasticity of soft shells
Andre M. Sonnet, Epifanio G. Virga
Soft modes of a shell are one-parameter families of non-trivial deformations that preserve the elastic energy. We identify all soft modes of the soft shells described by the variat…
Metric Implications in the Kinematics of Surfaces
Andre M. Sonnet, Epifanio G. Virga
In the direct approach to continua in reduced space dimensions, a thin shell is described as a mathematical surface in three-dimensional space. An exploratory kinematic study of su…
Neutral Deformation Modes of Minimal Surfaces
Ande M. Sonnet, Epifanio G. Virga
Stretching, drilling, and bending are the independent deformation modes of a thin shell, each of which has an individual energy content. When the energy content of a mode vanishes,…
A Variational Theory for Soft Shells
Andre M. Sonnet, Epifanio G. Virga
Three general modes are distinguished in the deformation of a thin shell; these are stretching, drilling, and bending. Of these, the drilling mode is the one more likely to emerge…
Bending-Neutral Deformations of Minimal Surfaces
André M. Sonnet, Epifanio G. Virga
Minimal surfaces are ubiquitous in nature. Here they are considered as geometric objects that bear a deformation content. By refining the resolution of the surface deformation grad…
Model for Photoresponsive Nematic Elastomers
André M. Sonnet, Epifanio G. Virga
We study the equilibria of a photoresponsive nematic elastomer ribbon within a continuum theory that builds upon the statistical mechanics model put forward by Corbett and Warner […
A blend of stretching and bending in nematic polymer networks
O. Ozenda, A. M. Sonnet, E. G. Virga
Nematic polymeric networks are (heat and light) activable materials, which combine the features of rubber and nematic liquid crystals. When only the stretching energy of a thin she…
Lifting map for ordered surfaces
Leonid V. Mirantsev, André M. Sonnet, Epifanio G. Virga
When a material surface is functionalized so as to acquire some type of order, functionalization of which soft condensed matter systems have recently provided many interesting exam…
Bistable curvature potential at hyperbolic points of nematic shells
Andre M. Sonnet, Epifanio G. Virga
Nematic shells are colloidal particles coated with nematic liquid crystal molecules which may freely glide and rotate on the colloid's surface while keeping their long axis on the…