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Packing Transitions in the Elastogranular Confinement of a Slender Loop
Soft Condensed Matter · Submitted 27 Nov 2019
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The authors' main claim Above a critical packing fraction $\phi_c$, local re-orientations within the granular medium create an effectively curved surface leading to the emergence of a distinct circular packing morphology in the adjacent elastic structure.
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Confined thin structures are ubiquitous in nature. Spatial and length constraints have led to a number of novel packing strategies at both the micro-scale, as when DNA packages inside a capsid, and the macro-scale, seen in plant root development and the arrangement of the human intestinal tract. By varying the arc length of an elastic loop injected into an array of monodisperse, soft, spherical grains at varying initial number density, we investigate the resulting packing behaviors between a growing slender structure constrained by deformable boundaries. At low initial packing fractions, the elastic loop deforms as though it were hitting a flat surface by periodically folding into the array. Above a critical packing fraction $\phi_c$, local re-orientations within the granular medium create an effectively curved surface leading to the emergence of a distinct circular packing morphology in the adjacent elastic structure. These results will bring new insight into the packing behavior of wires and thin sheets and will be relevant to modeling plant root morphogenesis, burrowing and locomotive strategies of vertebrates & invertebrates, and developing smart, steerable needles.
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| # | sentence | role | the authors' own work | states the main conclusion | strength |
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| s0 | Confined thin structures are ubiquitous in nature. | background 1.00 | 0.03 | 0.01 | asserted 1.00 |
| s1 | Spatial and length constraints have led to a number of novel packing strategies at both the micro-scale, as when DNA packages inside a capsid, and the macro-scale, seen in plant root development and the arrangement of the human intestinal tract. | background 1.00 | 0.04 | 0.03 | asserted 1.00 |
| s2 | By varying the arc length of an elastic loop injected into an array of monodisperse, soft, spherical grains at varying initial number density, we investigate the resulting packing behaviors between a growing slender structure constrained by deformable boundaries. | method 0.59 | 0.95 | 0.04 | asserted 0.81 |
| s3 | At low initial packing fractions, the elastic loop deforms as though it were hitting a flat surface by periodically folding into the array. | result 1.00 | 0.89 | 0.10 | asserted 0.99 |
| s4 | Above a critical packing fraction $\phi_c$, local re-orientations within the granular medium create an effectively curved surface leading to the emergence of a distinct circular packing morphology in the adjacent elastic structure. | result 0.96 | 0.88 | 0.56 | asserted 1.00 |
| s5 | These results will bring new insight into the packing behavior of wires and thin sheets and will be relevant to modeling plant root morphogenesis, burrowing and locomotive strategies of vertebrates & invertebrates, and developing smart, steerable needles. | interpretation 0.84 | 0.16 | 0.17 | hedged possibility 0.57 |
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Confined thin structures are ubiquitous in nature. Spatial and length constraints have led to a number of novel packing strategies at both the micro-scale, as when DNA packages inside a capsid, and the macro-scale, seen in plant root development and the arrangement of the human intestinal tract. By varying the arc length of an elastic loop injected into an array of monodisperse, soft, spherical grains at varying initial number density, we investigate the resulting packing behaviors between a growing slender structure constrained by deformable boundaries. At low initial packing fractions, the elastic loop deforms as though it were hitting a flat surface by periodically folding into the array. Above a critical packing fraction $\phi_c$, local re-orientations within the granular medium create an effectively curved surface leading to the emergence of a distinct circular packing morphology in the adjacent elastic structure. These results will bring new insight into the packing behavior of wires and thin sheets and will be relevant to modeling plant root morphogenesis, burrowing and locomotive strategies of vertebrates & invertebrates, and developing smart, steerable needles.
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