2024/06/10 by Yukino Kako, Ko Okumura, Kako, Yukino +1
Engineering · #Control and Dynamics of Mobile Robots #FOS: Physical sciences #Human Motion and Animation #Robotic Mechanisms and Dynamics #Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft) #Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2406.06311
openalex publication_date 2024/06/10 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Recently, simple scaling laws concerning the mechanical response and mechanical transition of Kirigami have been revealed through agreement between theory and experiment for kirigami made of paper [M. Isobe and K. Okumura, Sci. Rep. 2016]. Here, we provide experimental data obtained from kirigami made of soft elastic sheets to demonstrate good agreement with previous theories, although a number of assumptions in the theory are violated and the elastic modulus is three orders of magnitude smaller in the present case. This remarkable universality in the mechanics of Kirigami, which could be useful for applications, is reported with physical insights based on previous theories.