Wrinkling of pressurized elastic shells

We study the formation of localized structures formed by the point loading of an internally pressurized elastic shell. While unpressurized shells (such as a ping pong ball) buckle into polygonal structures, we show that pressurized shells are subject to a wrinkling instability. We present scaling la...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Vella, D, Ajdari, A, Vaziri, A, Boudaoud, A
Format: Journal article
Published: 2011