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Micromechanical origin of plasticity and hysteresis in nest-like packings
Yashraj Bhosale, Nicholas Weiner, Alex Butler +3
Disordered packings of unbonded, semiflexible fibers represent a class of materials spanning contexts and scales. From twig-based bird nests to unwoven textiles, bulk mechanics of…
Adhesive forces inhibit underwater contact formation for a soft-hard collision
Mengyue Sun1, Nityanshu Kumar1, Ali Dhinojwala +1
Thermodynamics tells us to expect underwater contact between two hydrophobic surfaces to result in stronger adhesion compared to two hydrophilic surfaces. However, presence of wate…
Termite mounds harness diurnal temperature oscillations for ventilation
Hunter King, Samuel A. Ocko, L. Mahadevan
Many species of millimetric fungus-harvesting termites collectively build uninhabited, massive mound structures enclosing a network of broad tunnels which protrude from the ground…
Inelastic impact of a sphere on a massive plane: nonmonotonic velocity-dependence of the restitution coefficient
Hunter King, Ryan White, Iva Maxwell +1
We have studied the coefficient of restitution, , in normal collisions of a non-rotating sphere on a massive plate for a range of material parameters, impact velocity and sphere…