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cond-mat.soft2016★ 184 cited
Critical slowing down in purely elastic `snap-through' instabilities
Michael Gomez, Derek E. Moulton, Dominic Vella
Many elastic structures have two possible equilibrium states: from umbrellas that become inverted in a sudden gust of wind, to nano-electromechanical switches, origami patterns and…
cond-mat.soft2016★ 30 cited
The shallow shell approach to Pogorelov's problem and the breakdown of `mirror buckling'
Michael Gomez, Derek E. Moulton, Dominic Vella
We present a detailed asymptotic analysis of the point indentation of an unpressurized, spherical elastic shell. Previous analyses of this classic problem have assumed that for suf…