Browsing by Subject "Buckling"
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Arrangements of lines of hard and soft spheres in confinement
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Physics. Discipline of Physics, 2024)Chains of particles, ranging from one-dimensional to three-dimensional structures, offer an avenue of research spanning condensed matter physics to microengineering, providing insights into material behaviour across diverse ... -
Description of the buckling of a chain of hard spheres in terms of Jacobi functions
(2022)A linear chain of hard spheres, confined by a transverse harmonic potential, buckles under compression between two hard walls. Jacobi functions provide exact analytic solutions of a differential equation (related to the ... -
Packing soft spheres: experimental demonstrations with hydrogels
(2023)We describe a number of different experimental set-ups that use hydrogel spheres to demonstrate dense packings of deformable spheres in various geometries. The arrangements are similar to those of bubbles in foams, ... -
A simple experimental system to illustrate the nonlinear properties of a linear chain under compression.
(2020)A linear chain of spheres confined by a transverse harmonic potential experiences localized buckling under compression. We present simple experiments using gas bubbles in a liquid-filled tube to demonstrate this phenomenon. ...