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cond-mat.soft2026

Frictional sliding strength of knotted and capstan configurations along the axis of a cylinder

Javier Sabater, Ji-Sung Park, Jérôme Crassous +2

We investigate the sliding strength of thin filaments in frictional contact with a translating cylinder, perpendicular to the filaments' axes, in knotted (clove hitch) and unknotte…