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Elastica; buckling; large deformation; deployable structures; growth

Can an elastic rod attain self-encapsulation when loaded transversally at midspan?

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Elastica; buckling; large deformation; deployable structures; growth

Can an elastic rod attain self-encapsulation when loaded transversally at midspan?

The elastic rod assumes the form of a liquid drop at self-encapsulation!
Enjoy the dripping of an elastic rod at http://www.ing.unitn.it/~bigoni/dripping.html

Extremely deformable structures. CISM 2014 Advanced School: Udine, Italy, June 2 - 6 2014 .

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Elastica; buckling; large deformation; deployable structures; growth

Lecturers:

Basile Audoly - Université Pierre et Marie Curie and CNRS, Paris, France

Katia Bertoldi - University of Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA

Davide Bigoni - Università di Trento, Italy

Alain Goriely - University of Oxford, UK

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