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Crumpling a Thin Sheet
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Crumpled sheets have a surprisingly large resistance to further compression. We have studied the crumpling of thin sheets of Mylar under different loading conditions. When placed under a fixed compressive force, the size of a crumpled material decreases logarithmically in time for periods up to three weeks. We also find hysteretic behavior when measuring the compression as a function of applied force. By using a pretreating protocol, we control this hysteresis and find reproducible scaling behavior for the size of the crumpled material as a function of the applied force.
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- Authors
- Matan, K., Williams, R. B., Witten, T. A., & Nagel, S. R.
- Venue
- Physical Review Letters
- Publisher
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Published
- 2002-01-30
- Volume
- 88
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 076101-076101
- ISSN
- 0031-9007 (ISSN-L)
- 1079-7114
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- W2040470526
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- 8.13
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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