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FROM:
K.A. Seffen and S.V. Stott (Dept. of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK), “Surface texturing through cylinder buckling”, Journal of Applied Mechanics, Vol. 81, No. 6, January 2014, DOI: 10.1115/1.4026331
ABSTRACT: We consider the axial buckling of a thin-walled cylinder fitted onto a mandrel core with a prescribed annular gap. The buckling pattern develops fully and uniformly to yield a surface texture of regular diamond-shaped buckles, which we propose for novel morphing structures. We describe experiments that operate well into the postbuckling regime, where a classical analysis does not apply; we show that the size of buckles depends on the cylinder radius and the gap width, but not on its thickness, and we formulate simple relationships from kinematics alone for estimating the buckle proportions during loading.
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