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Segmentation in cohesive systems constrained by elastic environments.

I Novak1, L Truskinovsky2

  • 1Department of Cell Biology, University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT 06030, USA.

Philosophical Transactions. Series A, Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences
|April 5, 2017
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Segmentation in fragile systems arises from competing interactions. This study reveals a "devil

Area of Science:

  • Physics
  • Materials Science
  • Biophysics

Background:

  • Fracture-induced segmentation in elastically constrained cohesive systems is complex due to competing interactions.
  • Discreteness plays a role in phenomena relevant to self-assembly and developmental morphogenesis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analytically investigate segmentation in a breakable mass-spring chain elastically linked to a deformable lattice.
  • To identify global energy minima and understand the energy landscape of segmentation.

Main Methods:

  • Analytical construction of all local energy minima.
  • Identification of global energy minima.
  • Analysis of the segmentation topology dependence on the stretching/pre-stress parameter.
Keywords:
competing interactionselastic foundationfracturesegmentation

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Main Results:

  • The complete set of local energy minima was explicitly constructed.
  • Global energy minima corresponding to stable segmentation states were identified.
  • Segmentation topology exhibits a devil's type staircase dependence on the pre-stress parameter, even in the continuum limit.

Conclusions:

  • The devil's staircase, with its rational microstructure locking, offers a potential explanation for the robustness of stress-driven segmentation in biological applications.
  • This model provides insights into pattern formation in complex media.
  • The findings are relevant to hierarchical self-assembly and developmental morphogenesis.