Journal article
Regimes of wrinkling in an indented floating elastic sheet
- Abstract:
- A thin, elastic sheet floating on the surface of a liquid bath wrinkles when poked at its center. We study the onset of wrinkling as well as the evolution of the pattern as indentation progresses far beyond the wrinkling threshold. We use tension field theory to describe the macroscopic properties of the deformed film and show that the system passes through a host of different regimes, even while the deflections and strains remain small. We show that the effect of the finite size of the sheet ultimately plays a key role in determining the location of the wrinkle pattern, and obtain scaling relations that characterize the number of wrinkles at threshold and its variation as the indentation progresses.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1103/PhysRevE.98.013003
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- Publisher:
- American Physical Society
- Journal:
- Physical Review E More from this journal
- Volume:
- 98
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 013003
- Publication date:
- 2018-07-23
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-06-21
- DOI:
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1550-2376
- ISSN:
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1539-3755
- Pubs id:
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pubs:868265
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uuid:b1f8767b-de6f-4fd1-8034-1190ce56fb42
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pubs:868265
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868265
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2018-07-12
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- American Physical Society
- Copyright date:
- 2018
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- © 2018 American Physical Society. This is the Accepted Manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from American Physical Society at: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.98.013003
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