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The Effect Of Surface-Tension On Stretching Of Very Thin Highly Elastic Filaments, Arkadii Leonov

Arkady I. Leonov

This paper deals with theoretical investigations of the extension of very thin highly elastic filaments as a function of fibrilar diameter. Some specific phenomena are predicted. If the diameter of the fibril is lower than a certain critical value, a nonmonotonous region appears on the stress–strain curve. In this region, a transition from slightly deformed to highly stretched (oriented) states occurs due to a special neck propagating along the fibril. A simple theoretical description of these phenomena is developed in terms of a given general high‐elastic dimensionless potential and two dimensionless parameters which characterize the external force and surface tension. …