Wrinkling of a thin circular sheet bonded to a spherical substrate

DOI10.1098/RSTA.2016.0157zbMATH Open1404.74088arXiv1611.01781OpenAlexW3102720521WikidataQ47902715 ScholiaQ47902715MaRDI QIDQ4560645FDOQ4560645

Authors: Peter Bella, Robert V. Kohn 

Publication date: 12 December 2018

Published in: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We consider a disk-shaped thin elastic sheet bonded to a compliant sphere. (Our sheet can slip along the sphere; the bonding controls only its normal displacement.) If the bonding is stiff (but not too stiff), the geometry of the sphere makes the sheet wrinkle to avoid azimuthal compression. The total energy of this system is the elastic energy of the sheet plus a (Winkler-type) substrate energy. Treating the thickness of the sheet $h$ as a small parameter, we determine the leading-order behavior of the energy as $h$ tends to zero, and give (almost matching) upper and lower bounds for the next-order correction. Our analysis of the leading-order behavior determines the macroscopic deformation of the sheet; in particular it determines the extent of the wrinkled region, and predicts the (nontrivial) radial strain of the sheet. The leading-order behavior also provides insight about the length scale of the wrinkling, showing that it must be approximately independent of the distance $r$ from the center of the sheet (so that the number of wrinkles must increase with $r$). Our results on the next-order correction provide insight about how the wrinkling pattern should vary with $r$. Roughly speaking, they suggest that the length scale of wrinkling should {it not} be exactly constant -- rather, it should vary a bit, so that the number of wrinkles at radius $r$ can be approximately piecewise constant in its dependence on $r$, taking values that are integer multiples of $h^{-alpha}$ with $alphaapprox1/2$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.01781

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zbMATH Keywords

wrinklingenergy scaling lawscompressed thin elastic sheets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Membranes (74K15)

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