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
Knitting Multistability
Kausalya Mahadevan, Michelle C. Yuen, David T. Farrell +4
Curved elastic shells can be fabricated through molding or by harnessing residual stresses. These shells often exhibit snap-through behavior and multistability when loaded. We pres…
cond-mat.soft2023
Unravelling the Mechanics of Knitted Fabrics Through Hierarchical Geometric Representation
Xiaoxiao Ding, Vanessa Sanchez, Katia Bertoldi +1
Knitting interloops one-dimensional yarns into three-dimensional fabrics that exhibit behaviours beyond their constitutive materials. How extensibility and anisotropy emerge from t…