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Author Couturier, E.; Dumais, J.; Cerda, E.; Katifori, E. pdf  doi
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  Title Folding of an opened spherical shell Type
  Year 2013 Publication (down) Soft Matter Abbreviated Journal Soft Matter  
  Volume 9 Issue 34 Pages 8359-8367  
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  Abstract Thin, doubly curved shells occur commonly in nature and their mechanical properties and modes of deformation are very important for engineering structures of all scales. Although there has been substantial work on the stability and modes of failure of thin shells, relatively little work has been done to understand the conditions that promote continuous large scale deformations. A major impediment to progress in this direction is the inherent difficulty in obtaining analytical expressions for the deformed shapes. In this work we propose a new integrable solution which describes the behavior under load of a thin spherical shell with an opening (aperture) of n-fold axial symmetry. We derive a two-parameter family of approximately isometric, constant positive Gaussian curvature shapes that is in excellent agreement with our experimental results of deformed shells (3D scans of compressed ping-pong balls) and simulations (tethered membrane simulations minimizing the stretching and bending energy). The integrable solutions that describe those shapes have n symmetrically arranged curvature singularities which correspond to cusps of the folded shape. We examine the properties of the folded shells and observe that in the analytic solutions isometric closure is more easily achieved when the singularities lie away from the center of the aperture. We find that when allowed by the geometry of the aperture and the nature of the load, physical shells expel the curvature singularities into the aperture.  
  Address [Couturier, E.; Cerda, E.] Univ Santiago Chile, Dept Fis, Santiago, Chile, Email: couturier_etienne@yahoo.fr  
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  Publisher Royal Soc Chemistry Place of Publication Editor  
  Language English Summary Language Original Title  
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  ISSN 1744-683x ISBN Medium  
  Area Expedition Conference  
  Notes WOS:000322906900027 Approved  
  Call Number UAI @ eduardo.moreno @ Serial 305  
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