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SUBMITTER: Croll AB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6447532 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Croll Andrew B AB Twohig Timothy T Elder Theresa T
Nature communications 20190403 1
Crumpling a sheet creates a unique, stiff and lightweight structure. Use of crumples in engineering design is limited because there are not simple, physically motivated structure-property relations available for crumpled materials; one cannot trust a crumple. On the contrary, we demonstrate that an empirical model reliably predicts the reaction of a crumpled sheet to a compressive force. Experiments show that the prediction is quantitative over 50 orders of magnitude in force, for purely elastic ...[more]