2 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Sub-singularities for shaping thin sheets
Thomas A. Witten, Anna Movsheva
The principles behind the sharp, singular structures in a crumpled sheet are well understood. Here we discuss more general ways of exploiting such sharp structures to control the s…
cond-mat.soft2023
Granular convergence as an iterated local map
Anna Movsheva, Thomas A. Witten
Granular convergence is a property of a granular pack as it is repeatedly sheared in a cyclic, quasistatic fashion, as the packing configuration changes via discrete events. Under…