4 papers
The illusion of illusions: There are no optical corrections in the Parthenon
Alain Goriely
One of the oldest and most enduring myths in human history is the belief that the Parthenon was cleverly designed with various curved structures and sizes in order to correct optic…
Nonlinear Cauchy Elasticity
Arash Yavari, Alain Goriely
Most theories and applications of elasticity rely on an energy function that depends on the strains from which the stresses can be derived. This is the traditional setting of Green…
Soft cells, Kelvin's foam and the minimal surfaces of Schwarz
Gábor Domokos, Alain Goriely, Ãkos G. Horváth +1
Recently, we introduced a new class of shapes, called soft cells which fill space as soft tilings without gaps and overlaps while minimizing the number of sharp corners. We introdu…
Elephant trunk wrinkles: A mathematical model of function and form
Yang Liu, Alain Goriely, L. Angela Mihai
A notable feature of the elephant trunk is the pronounced wrinkling that enables its great flexibility. Here, we devise a general mathematical model that accounts for the character…