2 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Buckling mediated by mobile localized elastic excitations
R. S. Hutton, E. Vitral, E. Hamm +1
Experiments reveal that structural transitions in thin sheets are mediated by the passage of transient and stable mobile localized elastic excitations. These ``crumples'' or ``d-co…
cond-mat.soft2025
A ruled narrow elastic strip model with corrected energy
E. Vitral, J. A. Hanna, L. Koens
We present a new one-dimensional model for elastic strips based on a nondevelopable ruled surface. An auxiliary field regularizes the Sadowsky narrow-strip model to allow nonzero t…