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cond-mat.soft2024

Mechanics and wrinkling patterns of pressurized bent tubes

Cesar L. Pastrana, Luyi Qiu, John W. Hutchinson +2

Take a drinking straw and bend it from its ends. After sufficient bending, the tube buckles forming a kink, where the curvature is localized in a very small area. This instability,…