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Asymptotic self-restabilization of a continuous elastic structure
F. Bosi, D. Misseroni, F. Dal Corso +2
A challenge in soft robotics and soft actuation is the determination of an elastic system which spontaneously recovers its trivial path during postcritical deformation after a bifu…
The heavy windlass: Buckling and coiling of an elastic rod inside a liquid drop in the presence of gravity
Hervé Elettro, Arnaud Antkowiak, Sébastien Neukirch
A liquid drop sitting on an elastic rod may act as a winch, or windlass, and pull the rod inside itself and coil it. This windlass effect has been shown to be generated by surface…
Spontaneous surface reserve formation in wicked membranes bestow extreme stretchability
Paul Grandgeorge, Natacha Krins, Aurélie Hourlier-Fargette +3
Soft stretchable materials are key for arising technologies such as stretchable electronics or batteries, smart textiles, biomedical devices, tissue engineering and soft robotics.…
Coiling of an elastic beam inside a disk: A model for spider-capture silk
Hervé Elettro, Fritz Vollrath, Sébastien Neukirch +1
Motivated by recent experimental observations of capillary-induced spooling of fibers inside droplets both in spider capture silk and in synthetic systems, we investigate the behav…
Elastocapillary coiling of an elastic rod inside a drop
Hervé Elettro, Paul Grandgeorge, Sébastien Neukirch
Capillary forces acting at the surface of a liquid drop can be strong enough to deform small objects and recent studies have provided several examples of elastic instabilities indu…
Drop-on-coilable-fibre systems exhibit negative stiffness events and transitions in coiling morphology
Hervé Elettro, Sébastien Neukirch, Fritz Vollrath +1
We investigate the mechanics of elastic fibres carrying liquid droplets. In such systems, buckling may localize inside the drop cavity if the fibre is thin enough. This so-called d…