| Issue |
EPL
Volume 80, Number 1, October 2007
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 14003 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Electromagnetism, Optics, Acoustics, Heat Transfer, Classical Mechanics, and Fluid Dynamics | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/80/14003 | |
| Published online | 03 September 2007 | |
Pre-tension regulates buckling patterns of soft films with interactions
CAS Key Laboratory of Mechanical Behavior and Design of Materials, University of Science and Technology of China - Hefei, Anhui 230026, PRC
Corresponding author: lhhe@ustc.edu.cn
Received:
28
March
2007
Accepted:
7
August
2007
We study elastic buckling of a uni-axially pre-tensioned soft elastic film in proximity to a rigid contactor due to van der Waals interaction. By a linear analysis, we show that the film will buckle into stripes parallel to the tensile direction, with tunable spacing governed by the magnitude of the pre-tension. Such a regulating effect of pre-tension may find practical applications in generating precise surface patterns.
PACS: 47.54.-r – Pattern selection; pattern formation / 46.32.+x – Static buckling and instability
© Europhysics Letters Association, 2007
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