The role of extensibility in the birth of a ruck in a rug
Everyday experience suggests that a ‘ruck’ forms when the two ends of a heavy carpet or rug are brought closer together. Classical analysis, however, shows that the horizontal compressive force needed to create such a ruck should be infinite. We show that this apparent paradox is due to the assumpti...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2015
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