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Thin film wrinkling: Transition from straight wrinkle from imposed Delta X (b) to "telephone cord" wrinkle from imposed Delta Y (c)

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Haikun Jia (1), Shibin Wang (1), Philippe Goudeau (2), Linan Li (1) and Xiuli Xue (1)
(1) Department of Mechanics, Tianjin University, 300072 Tianjin, People's Republic of China
(2) Institut Pprime, UPR 3346 CNRS -Universite de Poitiers- ENSMA, BP 30179, 86962 Futuroscope, France

“Investigation of buckling transition from straight-sided to telephone-cord wrinkles in AI films”, Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, Vol. 23, No. 4, Article ID 045014, 2013, https://doi.org/
10.1088/0960-1317/23/4/045014

ABSTRACT: Aluminum films 150 nm thick have been deposited on polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) substrates by a magnetron sputtering process. Parallel straight-sided wrinkles are induced by axial compression. The evolution from straight-sided to 'telephone-cord' wrinkles is experimentally investigated using optical microscopy. Finite element modeling of instability is introduced for analyzing the secondary bifurcation or buckling of straight-sided wrinkles. Imperfections based on a random combination of buckling eigenmodes are introduced in the finite element method (FEM) analysis to take into account secondary bifurcation. Because the perturbation of the imperfection is totally random and small, it is a more realistic approach for taking into account the roughness and flatness of the film. Moreover, the perturbation method can be applied more widely in some complex patterns of telephone-cord wrinkles. Good agreement is found between experimental observation and FEM calculations.

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