%0 Journal Article
%T Crumpling a Thin Sheet
%A Kittiwit Matan
%A Rachel Williams
%A Thomas A. Witten
%A Sidney R. Nagel
%J Physics
%D 2001
%I arXiv
%R 10.1103/PhysRevLett.88.076101
%X Crumpled sheets have a surprisingly large resistance to further compression. We have studied the crumpling of thin sheets of Mylar under different loading conditions. When placed under a fixed compressive force, the size of a crumpled material decreases logarithmically in time for periods up to three weeks. We also find hysteretic behavior when measuring the compression as a function of applied force. By using a pre-treating protocol, we control this hysteresis and find reproducible scaling behavior for the size of the crumpled material as a function of the applied force.
%U http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0111095v1