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Self-Contact and Instabilities in the Anisotropic Growth of Elastic Membranes

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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS, (2010)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.068101

Abstract

We investigate the morphology of thin discs and rings growing in the circumferential direction. Recent analytical results suggest that this growth produces symmetric excess cones ( e cones). We study the stability of such solutions considering self-contact and bending stress. We show that, contrary to what was assumed in previous analytical solutions, beyond a critical growth factor, no symmetric e cone solution is energetically minimal any more. Instead, we obtain skewed e cone solutions having lower energy, characterized by a skewness angle and repetitive spiral winding with increasing growth. These results are generalized to discs with varying thickness and rings with holes of different radii.

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