What is it about?
When twisting starts, the deformation is the same everywhere - a simple helical shape. But at higher twists, an amazing range of new shapes are possible, essentially due to different ways of buckling, and to geometrical constraints. This paper explores some of the conditions for different shapes.
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Before being involved in this work, I was quite unaware that such a simple set-up could give such rich behaviour. I found it to be a fascinating problem, both to understand and to quantify the conditions for observing the different morphologies. And much remains to be done.
David Dunstan
Queen Mary University of London
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This page is a summary of: Morphology transitions of twisted ribbons: Dependence on tension and geometry, Applied Physics Letters, December 2022, American Institute of Physics,
DOI: 10.1063/5.0132984.
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