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Confinement-induced instability of thin elastic film
1Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur 208016, India.
Abstract:
A confined incompressible elastic film does not deform uniformly when subjected to adhesive interfacial stresses but with undulations which have a characteristic wavelength scaling linearly with the thickness of the film. In the classical peel geometry, undulations appear along the contact line below a critical film thickness or below a critical curvature of the plate. Perturbation analysis of the stress equilibrium equations shows that for a critically confined film the total excess energy indeed attains a minimum for a finite amplitude of the perturbations which grow with further increase in the confinement.
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