Crumpling a Thin Sheet
Soft Condensed Matter
2009-11-07 v1 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Abstract
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 pre-treating protocol, we control this hysteresis and find reproducible scaling behavior for the size of the crumpled material as a function of the applied force.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0111095,
title = {Crumpling a Thin Sheet},
author = {Kittiwit Matan and Rachel Williams and Thomas A. Witten and Sidney R. Nagel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0111095},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
revtex 4 pages, 6 eps figures submitted to Phys Rev. lett