Thesis
Ghosts and bottlenecks in elastic snap-through
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Snap-through is a striking instability in which an elastic object rapidly jumps from one state to another. It is seen in the leaves of the Venus flytrap plant and umbrellas flipping on a windy day among many other examples. Similar structures that snap-through are used to generate fast motions in soft robotics, switches in micro-scale electronics and artificial heart valves. Despite the ubiquity of snap-through in nature and engineering, its dynamics is usually only understood qualitativel...
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+ Moulton, D
Department:
Mathematical Institute
Role:
Supervisor
+ Vella, D
Department:
Mathematical Institute
Role:
Supervisor
Funding
+ Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
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Gomez, M
Grant:
EP/ M50659X/1
Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
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English
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- Deposit date:
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2018-10-05
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- Copyright holder:
- Gomez, M; Michael Gomez.
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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