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Randomly crumpled sheets have shape memory. In order to understand the basis of this form of memory, we simulate triangular lattices of springs whose lengths are altered to create a topography with multiple potential energy minima. We then…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-11-18 Naomi Oppenheimer , Thomas A. Witten

An objective approach to select the best fabric for technical and home textiles consists in mechanical properties evaluation. The goal of this study is to analyze the behavior of knitted fabrics undergoing stretch stress. In this respect,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-28 Raluca Brad , Milena Dinu

We study the athermal mechanical response of deformable ring assemblies to quasistatic compression. Beyond jamming, further densification induces buckling of rings, resulting in macroscopic mechanical softening. Under cyclic compression,…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-22 Rahul Nayak , Satyavani Vemparala , Pinaki Chaudhuri

Insects, pick-and-place manufacturing, engineered adhesives, and soft robots employ soft materials to stick to surfaces even in the presence of roughness. Experiments show that the force required for making contact is lower than for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-07-27 Antoine Sanner , Nityanshu Kumar , Ali Dhinojwala , Tevis D. B. Jacobs , Lars Pastewka

Generating realistic clothing for virtual applications like online retail and digital avatars is crucial but requires expert knowledge of 3D tools to generating believable simulations. Recently, a number of works proposed to estimate cloth…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Egor Larionov , Marie-Lena Eckert , Katja Wolff , Tuur Stuyck

Physical interaction with textiles, such as assistive dressing, relies on advanced dextreous capabilities. The underlying complexity in textile behavior when being pulled and stretched, is due to both the yarn material properties and the…

Nanoindentation cycles measured with an atomic force microscope on hydrated collagen fibrils exhibit a rate-independent hysteresis with return point memory. This previously unknown energy dissipation mechanism describes in unified form…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-07-16 Robert Magerle , Paul Zech , Martin Dehnert , Alexandra Bendixen , Andreas Otto

Laddering is the propagation of a topological defect in an everyday-life material: weft knitted fabrics, following a broken thread or a dropped stitch. What is a minor frustration when damaging a pair of tights is a more serious issue for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-23 Antoine Faulconnier , Laura Michel , Mokhtar Adda-Bedia , Jérôme Crassous , Audrey Steinberger

We present multi-component knitted resistive sensors for tracking tensile force. The knits were fabricated using a Twill structure, which is a simple pattern featuring anisotropic elastic behavior, providing high stability along…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-14 Roland Aigner , Frank Hepper

In this paper, we propose to predict the physics parameters of real fabrics and garments by learning their physics similarities between simulated fabrics via a Physics Similarity Network (PhySNet). For this, we estimate wind speeds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-21 Li Duan , Lewis Boyd , Gerardo Aragon-Camarasa

Embedding magnetic colloidal particles in an elastic polymer matrix leads to smart soft materials that can reversibly be addressed from outside by external magnetic fields. We discover a pronounced nonlinear superelastic stress-strain…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-10-28 Peet Cremer , Hartmut Löwen , Andreas M. Menzel

Repeated/cyclic shearing can drive amorphous solids to a steady-state encoding a memory of the applied strain amplitude. However, recent experiments find that the effect of such memory formation on the mechanical properties of the bulk…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-06-28 Sebanti Chattopadhyay , Sayantan Majumdar

We create mechanical metamaterials whose response to uniaxial compression can be programmed by lateral confinement, allowing monotonic, non-monotonic and hysteretic behavior. These functionalities arise from a broken rotational symmetry…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-06-22 Bastiaan Florijn , Corentin Coulais , Martin van Hecke

We investigate hysteresis loops and return point memory for artificial square and kagome spin ice systems by cycling an applied bias force and comparing microscopic effective spin configurations throughout the hysteresis cycle. Return point…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-05-30 A. Libal , C. Reichhardt , C. J. Olson Reichhardt

In biological systems, both skin sensitivity and body flexibility play crucial roles in haptic perception. Fully soft robots often suffer from structural fragility and delayed sensory processing, limiting their practical functionality. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Kazashi Nakano , Katsuma Inoue , Yasuo Kuniyoshi , Kohei Nakajima

Materials that have a hysteretic response to an external field are essential in modern information storage and processing technologies. The magnetization curves of several natural and artificial materials have previously been measured and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-04-18 Andres Concha , David Aguayo , Paula Mellado

As a surrogate for computationally intensive meso-scale simulation of woven composites, this article presents Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) models. Leveraging the power of transfer learning, the initialization challenges and sparse data…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-08 Ehsan Ghane , Martin Fagerström , Mohsen Mirkhalaf

For machines to interact with the physical world, they must understand the physical properties of objects and materials they encounter. We use fabrics as an example of a deformable material with a rich set of mechanical properties. A thin…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-04-13 Wenzhen Yuan , Shaoxiong Wang , Siyuan Dong , Edward Adelson

We consider the coarsening properties of a kinetic Ising model with a memory field. The probability of a spin-flip depends on the persistence time of the spin in a state. The more a spin has been in a given state, the less the spin-flip…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fabio Caccioli , Silvio Franz , Matteo Marsili

Dense associative memory, a fundamental instance of modern Hopfield networks, can store a large number of memory patterns as equilibrium states of recurrent networks. While the stationary-state storage capacity has been investigated, its…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2025-10-29 Kazushi Mimura , Jun'ichi Takeuchi , Yuto Sumikawa , Yoshiyuki Kabashima , Anthony C. C. Coolen