Energetic bounds for paperboard delamination under bending

Abstract: Paperboard is an engineering material consisting of a number of separate sheets of paper, that have been bonded together. Experimental evidence shows that paperboard undergoing bending develops phenomenologically plastic hinges. We consider a nonlinearly elastic mathematical model for paperboard, allowing debonding of the sheets at a given cost per unit area. Analysis of our model predicts a number of different regimes, including somewhere bending is concentrated in delaminated hinges, where the mid-plane of each individual layer may deform isometrically. This is joint work with Sergio Conti (Bonn) and Julia Orlik (Kaiserslautern).

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Nečas Seminar on Continuum Mechanics

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