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Fringe instability in constrained soft elastic layers

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dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
dc.contributor Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering
dc.contributor Lin, Shaoting
dc.contributor Cohen, Tal
dc.contributor Zhang, Teng
dc.contributor Yuk, Hyunwoo
dc.contributor Abeyaratne, Rohan
dc.contributor Zhao, Xuanhe
dc.creator Lin, Shaoting
dc.creator Cohen, Tal
dc.creator Zhang, Teng
dc.creator Yuk, Hyunwoo
dc.creator Abeyaratne, Rohan
dc.creator Zhao, Xuanhe
dc.date 2017-03-09T16:26:59Z
dc.date 2017-03-09T16:26:59Z
dc.date 2016-10
dc.date 2016-07
dc.date.accessioned 2023-03-01T18:12:15Z
dc.date.available 2023-03-01T18:12:15Z
dc.identifier 1744-683X
dc.identifier 1744-6848
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107250
dc.identifier Lin, Shaoting et al. “Fringe Instability in Constrained Soft Elastic Layers.” Soft Matter 12.43 (2016): 8899–8906. © 2016 Royal Society of Chemistry
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9449-5790
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7015-058X
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1710-9750
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2912-1538
dc.identifier https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5387-6186
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/279142
dc.description Soft elastic layers with top and bottom surfaces adhered to rigid bodies are abundant in biological organisms and engineering applications. As the rigid bodies are pulled apart, the stressed layer can exhibit various modes of mechanical instabilities. In cases where the layer's thickness is much smaller than its length and width, the dominant modes that have been studied are the cavitation, interfacial and fingering instabilities. Here we report a new mode of instability which emerges if the thickness of the constrained elastic layer is comparable to or smaller than its width. In this case, the middle portion along the layer's thickness elongates nearly uniformly while the constrained fringe portions of the layer deform nonuniformly. When the applied stretch reaches a critical value, the exposed free surfaces of the fringe portions begin to undulate periodically without debonding from the rigid bodies, giving the fringe instability. We use experiments, theory and numerical simulations to quantitatively explain the fringe instability and derive scaling laws for its critical stress, critical strain and wavelength. We show that in a force controlled setting the elastic fingering instability is associated with a snap-through buckling that does not exist for the fringe instability. The discovery of the fringe instability will not only advance the understanding of mechanical instabilities in soft materials but also have implications for biological and engineered adhesives and joints.
dc.description United States. Office of Naval Research (Grant N00014-14-1-0528)
dc.description Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies
dc.description National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Grant CMMI- 1253495)
dc.description Samsung Scholarship Foundation
dc.description National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (Grant UH3TR000505)
dc.description MIT-Technion Fellowship
dc.format application/pdf
dc.language en_US
dc.publisher Royal Society of Chemistry
dc.relation http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c6sm01672c
dc.relation Soft Matter
dc.rights Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported
dc.rights https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
dc.source Royal Society of Chemistry
dc.title Fringe instability in constrained soft elastic layers
dc.type Article
dc.type http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle


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