Planar random networks with flexible fibers

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä

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Physical Review Letters, Volume 73, issue 25, pp. 3475-3478

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The transition in random fiber networks from two-dimensional to asymptotically three-dimensional planar structure with increasing coverage ¯c (mean fiber length per unit area) is studied with a deposition model. Network geometry depends on the scale-free product of fiber length and ¯c at low ¯c, and on another scale-free product of flexibility and the width-to-thickness ratio of fibers at high ¯c. The structure becomes three-dimensional or decouples from the substrate faster when fibers are stiffer. Roughness of the free surface decreases with increasing fiber flexibility.

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Niskanen, K & Alava, M 1994, 'Planar random networks with flexible fibers', Physical Review Letters, vol. 73, no. 25, pp. 3475-3478. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.3475