Scaling properties of randomly folded plastic sheets.

Autor: Balankin AS; Grupo Mecánica Fractal, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, México Distrito Federal, Mexico., Silva IC, Martínez OA, Huerta OS
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics [Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys] 2007 May; Vol. 75 (5 Pt 1), pp. 051117. Date of Electronic Publication: 2007 May 24.
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.75.051117
Abstrakt: We study the scaling properties of randomly folded aluminum sheets of different thicknesses h and widths L . We found that the fractal dimension D=2.30+/-0.01 and the force scaling exponent delta=0.21+/-0.02 are independent of the sheet thickness and close to those obtained in numerical simulations with a coarse-grained model of triangulated self-avoiding surfaces with bending and stretching rigidity. So our findings suggest that finite bending rigidity and self-avoidance play the predominant roles in the scaling behavior of randomly folded plastic sheets.
Databáze: MEDLINE