2007/03/31 by Christian Andresen, Christian Andre Andresen, Alex Hansen +1 · 2 citations
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Materials and Mechanics #Architecture and Computational Design #Modular Robots and Swarm Intelligence #cond-mat.other #cond-mat.soft
paper · pdf · doi:10.1103/physreve.76.026108
8 pages, 10 figure, 2 tables Replaced due to wrong formating of author names
arxiv created 2007/08/13 · openalex publication_date 2007/08/20 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The network formed by ridges in a straightened sheet of crumpled paper is studied using a laser profilometer. Square sheets of paper were crumpled into balls, unfolded, and their height profile measured. From these profiles the imposed ridges were extracted as networks. Nodes were defined as intersections between ridges, and links as the various ridges connecting the nodes. Many network and spatial properties have been investigated. The tail of the ridge length distribution was found to follow a power law, whereas the shorter ridges followed a log-normal distribution. The degree distribution was found to have an exponentially decaying tail, and the degree correlation was found to be disassortative. The facets created by the ridges and the Voronoi diagram formed by the nodes have also been investigated.