Soft catenaries

Using the classical catenary as a motivating example, we use slender-body theory to derive a general theory for thin filaments of arbitrary rheology undergoing large combined stretching and bending, which correctly accounts for the nonlinear geometry of deformation and uses integrated state variable...

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Main Authors: Kamrin, Kenneth N. (Contributor), Mahadevan, L. (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press, 2013-05-09T19:46:38Z.
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