Poking and Wrinkling of Sheets and Shells
Event details
| Date | 16.04.2013 |
| Hour | 10:15 |
| Speaker |
Dr. Dominic Vella, OCCAM -- University of Oxford http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/vella/ |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Poking an object is a useful way of testing its properties in a range of everyday applications from cooking meat to inflating a bicycle tyre. It is also used quantitatively in science to achieve the same thing. In this talk I will discuss what we can learn from poking pressurized elastic shells - a simple model of yeast ells. I will also show that poking can cause wrinkling and how the wrinkling pattern may be useful in its own right. This leads on to a more general discussion of wrinkling in systems with a large number of wrinkles.
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- LFMI
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- François Gallaire