Wrinkling Hierarchy in Constrained Thin Sheets from Suspended Graphene to Curtains
We show that thin sheets under boundary confinement spontaneously generate a universal self-similar hierarchy of wrinkles. From simple geometry arguments and energy scalings, we develop a formalism based on wrinklons, the localized transition zone in the merging of two wrinkles, as building blocks o...
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American Physical Society
2011
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/66219 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3984-828X |