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Thermal buckling and symmetry breaking in thin ribbons under compression
Paul Z. Hanakata, Sourav S. Bhabesh, Mark J. Bowick +2
Understanding thin sheets, ranging from the macro to the nanoscale, can allow control of mechanical properties such as deformability. Out-of-plane buckling due to in-plane compress…
Statistical Mechanics of Dislocation Pileups in Two Dimensions
Grace H. Zhang, David R. Nelson
Dislocation pileups directly impact the material properties of crystalline solids through the arrangement and collective motion of interacting dislocations. We study the statistica…
Statistical Mechanics of Low Angle Grain Boundaries in Two Dimensions
Grace H. Zhang, David R. Nelson
We explore order in low angle grain boundaries (LAGBs) embedded in a two-dimensional crystal at thermal equilibrium. Symmetric LAGBs subject to a periodic Peierls potential undergo…
Buckling and metastability in membranes with dilation arrays
Abigail Plummer, David R. Nelson
We study periodic arrays of impurities that create localized regions of expansion, embedded in two-dimensional crystalline membranes. These arrays provide a simple elastic model of…