Why wide webs wrinkle
The term ``web has not been properly defined in early papers on this topic. Roughly speaking they are paper-like materials, very thin, difficult to handle, having small bending stiffness, thus they are not considered as either membranes or plates. Handling of sheets of paper in printers, or thin sheets of plastics at high speed, produce problems of wrinkling or flutter, which is the cause of many difficulties, stoppages, or blocking of material flow. It is clear that there is a nonlinear coupling of the membrane-like stresses due to the transverse loading with the small but not negligible stresses due to shear and bending. Thus fourth-order terms must be included both at the edges and in the interior of the domain. The vibrations of fast moving saw blades modelled by a tensionally stressed, axially moving Kirchhoff plate, was studied by \textit{A. G. Ulsoy} and \textit{C. D. Mote jun.} [J. Eng. 104 (1982)]. In this model the compatibility equations were satisfied only by a linear stress profile across the width of the plate. Later this defect was taken care of. \textit{C. C. Lin} and \textit{C. D Mote, jun.} used von Kármán's theory in their study of axially moving web subjected to transverse loads [J. Appl. Mech. 63, 655-659 and 774-779 (1996; Zbl 0875.73171 and Zbl 0875.73172)]. In the present paper the authors use a modification of the well-known equilibrium equation \[ \varepsilon\{\widehat w_{\xi\xi\xi\xi}+ 2\widehat w_{\xi\xi\eta\eta}+\widehat w_{\eta\eta\eta\eta}\}- \widehat w_{\xi\xi}+ b\widehat w_{\eta\eta}= 0, \] where \(\widehat w= w/h\), \(\xi= x/L\), \(\eta= y/L\), and \(\varepsilon= D/(TL^2)\) are dimensionless quantities, \(T\) is the uniform tension, \(bT\) is the compression, and \(b\) is the eigenvalue determining the wrinkling mode. The number of wrinkle lines increases with the aspect ratio (width/length). For small \(\varepsilon\) \((<10^{-4})\) the critical compression becomes essentially independent of the boundary conditions. Using a similar model restated in terms of the (biharmonic) Airy stress function, the authors obtain some counter-intuitive predictions concerning wrinkling. Graphs and detailed calculations complete the contents of this interesting paper. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0937.93004].
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