Materials scientists prove 70-year-old tensile deformation prediction
Friday, September 23, 2016 - 08:21
in Physics & Chemistry
Imagine pulling or compressing a block of soft material—like rubber—equally in all directions. You wouldn't expect the block to deform much because of the nature of the material. However, in 1948, an applied mathematician named Ronald Rivlin predicted that with the right amount of tensile force, a thick cube of soft material would suddenly deform into a thin, flat plate.