Bistable behaviour of creased thin metallic strips
Author(s): |
Martin Walker
Keith A. Seffen |
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Medium: | conference paper |
Language(s): | English |
Conference: | Interfaces: Architecture, Engineering, Science, Annual Meeting of the International Association of Shell & Spatial Structures (IASS), Hamburg, 25-27 September 2017 |
Published in: | Interfaces: Architecture . Engineering . Science |
Year: | 2017 |
Abstract: | This study investigates the opposite sense bending of a creased thin metallic strip which can exhibit a snap-through instability. We develop a simple analytical model to describe this behaviour, which shows good agreement with experimental and finite element results. |