Floating Carpets and the Delamination of Elastic Sheets

Till J. W. Wagner; Dominic Vella

doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.044301

Floating Carpets and the Delamination of Elastic Sheets

Till J. W. Wagner, Dominic Vella

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We investigate the deformation of a thin elastic sheet floating on a liquid surface and subject to a uniaxial compression. We show that at a critical compression the sheet delaminates from the liquid over a finite region forming a delamination "blister." This blistering regime adds to the wrinkling and localized folding regimes that have been studied previously. The transition from wrinkled to blistered states occurs when delamination becomes energetically favorable compared with wrinkling. We determine the initial blister size and the evolution of blister size with continuing compression before verifying our theoretical results with experiments at a macroscopic scale. © 2011 American Physical Society.

Original language	English (US)
Journal	Physical Review Letters
Volume	107
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.044301
State	Published - Jul 22 2011
Externally published	Yes

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KAUST Repository Item: Exported on 2020-10-01
Acknowledged KAUST grant number(s): KUK-C1-013-04
Acknowledgements: This publication is based on work supported in part by Grant No. KUK-C1-013-04, made by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). T. J. W. W. is supported by EPSRC. We thank R. Sayag and D. Page-Croft for technical assistance with experiments.
This publication acknowledges KAUST support, but has no KAUST affiliated authors.

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