Mechanics of randomly packed filaments—The “bird nest” as meta-material
@article{Weiner2020MechanicsOR, title={Mechanics of randomly packed filaments—The “bird nest” as meta-material}, author={Nicholas R. Weiner and Yashraj Bhosale and Mattia Gazzola and H. King}, journal={Journal of Applied Physics}, year={2020} }
Systems of randomly packed, macroscopic elements, from jammed spherical grains to tangled long filaments, represent a broad class of disordered meta-materials with a wide range of applications and manifestations in nature. A `bird nest' presents itself at an interface between hard round grains described by granular physics to long soft filaments, the center of textile material science. All of these randomly packed systems exhibit forms of self assembly, evident through their robust packing…
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