https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2019-11900-2
Regular Article
Let’s deflate that beach ball
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, LIPhy, 38000, Grenoble, France
* e-mail: gwennou.coupier@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
Received:
15
March
2019
Accepted:
27
August
2019
Published online:
30
September
2019
We investigate the relationship between pre-buckling and post-buckling states as a function of shell properties, within the deflation process of shells of an isotropic material. With an original and low-cost set-up that allows to measure simultaneously volume and pressure, elastic shells whose relative thicknesses span on a broad range are deflated until they buckle. We characterize the post-buckling state in the pressure-volume diagram, but also the relaxation toward this state. The main result is that before as well as after the buckling, the shells behave in a way compatible with predictions generated through thin shell assumption, and that this consistency persists for shells where the thickness reaches up to 0.3 the shell’s midsurface radius.
Key words: Soft Matter: Colloids and Nanoparticles
© EDP Sciences, Società Italiana di Fisica and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature, 2019
