3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
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…
cond-mat.soft2024
Pulling apart the mechanisms that lead to jammed knitted fabrics
Sarah E. Gonzalez, Michael S. Dimitriyev, A. Patrick Cachine +1
We investigate the mechanical behavior of jammed knitted fabrics, where geometric confinement leads to an initially stiff mechanical response that softens into low stiffness behavi…
cond-mat.soft2023
Programming Mechanics in Knitted Materials, Stitch by Stitch
Krishma Singal, Michael S. Dimitriyev, Sarah E. Gonzalez +3
Knitting turns yarn, a 1D material, into a 2D fabric that is flexible, durable [1], and can be patterned to adopt a wide range of 3D geometries [2]. Like other mechanical metamater…