Geometry and Elasticity of a Knitted Fabric
Knitting is not only a mere art and craft hobby but also a thousand-year-old technology. Unlike weaving, it can produce loose yet extremely stretchable fabrics with almost vanishing rigidity, a desirable property exhibited by hardly any bulk material. It also enables the engineering of arbitrarily s...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2018-06-01
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| Series: | Physical Review X |
| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.8.021075 |