2 papers
cond-mat.soft2023
Formation and mechanics of fire ant rafts as an active self-healing membrane
Chung-Hao Chen, Ting-Heng Hsieh, Hong-Yue Huang +2
The unique ability of fire ants to form a raft to survive flooding rain has enchanted biologists as well as researchers in other disciplines. It has been established during the las…
cond-mat.soft2020
Aging-Induced Dynamics for Statically Indeterminate System
Jr-Jiun Lin, Chi-Chun Cheng, Yu-Chuan Cheng +2
Statically indeterminate systems are experimentally demonstrated to be in fact dynamical at the microscopic scale. Take the classic ladder-wall problem, for instance. Depending on…