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Strengthening by softening: Rigidity increase of a curved sheet from nonlinear regime of deformation
Nino Quillent-Elinguel, Thomas Barois
It is well-known that a thin sheet held in a rigid circular clamp has a larger flexural strength than when it is flat. Here, we report that the flexural strength of curved sheets i…
Controlled Locomotion of a Minimal Soft Structure by Stick-Slip Nonlinearity
Thomas Barois, A. Boucherie, L. Tadrist +1
We present a locomotion mechanism that uses the stick-slip transition of a soft passive structure with an internal mechanical resonance. The structure is harmonically driven by a g…
Roadmap for Animate Matter
Giorgio Volpe, Nuno A. M. Araújo, Maria Guix +37
Humanity has long sought inspiration from nature to innovate materials and devices. As science advances, nature-inspired materials are becoming part of our lives. Animate materials…
Steering self-organisation through confinement
Nuno A. M. Araújo, Liesbeth M. C. Janssen, Thomas Barois +26
Self-organisation is the spontaneous emergence of spatio-temporal structures and patterns from the interaction of smaller individual units. Examples are found across many scales in…
Entrainment, diffusion and effective compressibility in a self-similar turbulent jet
Thomas Basset, Bianca Viggiano, Thomas Barois +5
An experimental Lagrangian study based on particle tracking velocimetry has been completed in an incompressible turbulent round water jet freely spreading into water. The jet is se…
Transition to stress focusing for locally curved sheets
Thomas Barois, Ilyes Jalisse, Loïc Tadrist +1
A rectangular thin elastic sheet is deformed by forcing a contact between two points at the middle of its length. A transition to buckling with stress focusing is reported for the…
Lagrangian diffusion properties of a free shear turbulent jet
Bianca Viggiano, Thomas Basset, Stephen Solovitz +7
A Lagrangian experimental study of an axisymmetric turbulent water jet is performed to investigate the highly anisotropic and inhomogeneous flow field. The measurements were conduc…
Quality factor enhancement of Nano electromechanical systems by capacitive driving beyond the resonance
T Barois, S Perisanu, P Poncharal +2
Nano electromechanical systems are considered as ultra sensitive devices for mass and force detection. Capacitive actuation is widely used in these devices but is known to degrade…
Columnar structure formation of a dilute suspension of settling spherical particles in a quiescent fluid
Sander G. Huisman, Thomas Barois, Mickaël Bourgoin +6
The settling of heavy spherical particles in a column of quiescent fluid is investigated. The performed experiments cover a range of Galileo numbers ()…
Role of fluctuations and nonlinearities on field emission nanomechanical self-oscillators
Thomas Barois, S. Perisanu, Anthony AYARI +2
A theoretical and experimental description of the threshold, amplitude, and stability of a self-oscillating nanowire in a field emission configuration is presented. Two thresholds…
Digital and FM demodulation of a doubly-clamped single wall carbon nanotube oscillator: towards a nanotube cell phone
Vincent Gouttenoire, Thomas Barois, Sorin-Mihai Perisanu +4
Electromechanical resonators are a key element in radio-frequency telecommunications devices and thus new resonator concepts from nanotechnology can readily find important industri…