5 papers
Static friction of liquid marbles
Yui Takai, Kei Mukoyama, Pritam Kumar Roy +4
Liquid marbles, droplets coated with a granular layer, are highly mobile as particles prevent capillary adhesion to the substrate. Yet their coating creates a static rolling fricti…
Textiles: from twisted yarn to topology and mechanics
Elizabeth J. Dresselhaus, Sonia Mahmoudi, Lauren Niu +3
While textiles have existed throughout much of human history as complex mechanical metamaterials, textile science has largely been overlooked by the physics community until recentl…
Topological Defect Propagation to Classify Knitted Fabrics
Daisuke S. Shimamoto, Keiko Shimamoto, Sonia Mahmoudi +1
Knits and crochets are mechanical metamaterials with a long history and can typically be produced from a single yarn. Despite the simplicity of the manufacturing process, they exhi…
Rigidity transition of a highly compressible granular medium
Samuel Poincloux, Kazumasa A. Takeuchi
A wide range of disordered materials, from biological to geological assemblies, feature discrete elements undergoing large shape changes. How significant geometrical variations at…
Metastability of a periodic network of threads: what are the shapes of a knitted fabric ?
Jérôme Crassous, Samuel Poincloux, Audrey Steinberger
Knitted fabrics are metamaterials with remarkable mechanical properties, such as extreme deformability and multiple history-dependent rest shapes. This letter shows that those prop…