2001/11/07 by K. Matan, Kittiwit Matan, Rachel Williams +3 · 5 citations
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Materials and Mechanics #Cellular Mechanics and Interactions #Structural Analysis and Optimization #cond-mat.dis-nn #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physrevlett.88.076101
revtex 4 pages, 6 eps figures submitted to Phys Rev. lett
arxiv created 2001/11/07 · openalex publication_date 2002/01/30 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/02
Crumpled sheets have a surprisingly large resistance to further compression. We have studied the crumpling of thin sheets of Mylar under different loading conditions. When placed under a fixed compressive force, the size of a crumpled material decreases logarithmically in time for periods up to three weeks. We also find hysteretic behavior when measuring the compression as a function of applied force. By using a pretreating protocol, we control this hysteresis and find reproducible scaling behavior for the size of the crumpled material as a function of the applied force.