Elastic sheet on a liquid drop reveals wrinkling and crumpling as distinct symmetry-breaking instabilities
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A sheet on a drop reveals wrinkling and crumpling as distinct symmetry-breaking instabilities
Smooth wrinkles and sharply crumpled regions are familiar motifs in biological or synthetic sheets, such as rapidly growing plant leaves and crushed foils. Previous studies have addressed both morphological types, but the generic route whereby a featureless sheet develops a complex shape remains elusive. Here we show that this route proceeds through an unusual sequence of distinct symmetry-brea...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1201201109