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Geometrically Templated Dynamic Wrinkling from Suspended Poly(vinyl alcohol) Soap Films
Yuchong Gao, Yinding Chi, Mohit Patel +4
Wrinkling is commonly observed as mechanical instability when a stiff thin film bound on a compliant thick substrate undergoes in-plane compression exceeding a threshold. Despite s…
cond-mat.soft2019
Curvature regularization near contacts with stretched elastic tubes
Bhargav Rallabandi, Joel Marthelot, P. -T. Brun +1
Bringing a rigid object into contact with a soft elastic tube causes the tube to conform to the surface of the object, resulting in contact lines. The curvature of the tube walls n…
cond-mat.soft2016
The surprising dynamics of a chain on a pulley: Lift-off and snapping
Pierre-Thomas Brun, Basile Audoly, Alain Goriely +1
The motion of weights attached to a chain or string moving on a frictionless pulley is a classic problem of introductory physics used to understand the relationship between force a…