2 papers
cond-mat.soft2020
Cutting and tearing thin elastic sheets: two novel single-period cracks and the first period-doubling crack
Chuang-Shi Shen, Chun-Lin Du, Huan-Fang Wang +1
Two novel single-period cracks were observed in experiments of cutting a folded sheet with a blunt object and tearing a thin brittle sheet under the guidance of a meterstick. Addit…
cond-mat.soft2019
Fragmentation of shells: An analogy with the crack formation in tree bark
Chuang-Shi Shen, Chao Zhang, Xiaosheng Gao +1
How does a shell explode into a series of fragments upon impact? The well accepted explanation is Mott's theory, which considers the fragmentation of shells as a random process con…