Floppy modes and non-affine deformations in random fiber networks
Soft Condensed Matter
2016-08-31 v3 Disordered Systems and Neural Networks
Statistical Mechanics
Biological Physics
Biomolecules
Abstract
We study the elasticity of random fiber networks. Starting from a microscopic picture of the non-affine deformation fields we calculate the macroscopic elastic moduli both in a scaling theory and a self-consistent effective medium theory. By relating non-affinity to the low-energy excitations of the network (``floppy-modes'') we achieve a detailed characterization of the non-affine deformations present in fibrous networks.
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@article{arxiv.cond-mat/0603697,
title = {Floppy modes and non-affine deformations in random fiber networks},
author = {Claus Heussinger and Erwin Frey},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cond-mat/0603697},
year = {2016}
}
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4 pages, 2 figures, new figures