Contact lines on soft solids with uniform surface tension:analytical solutions and double transition for increasing formability

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 471, Issue 2176, 2015, Pages

  Dervaux, Julien ^a,b   Limat, Laurent ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b Bât Condorcet   (France)

Author keywords

Contact line; Flamant Cerruti; Wetting

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; FORMABILITY; GREEN'S FUNCTION; WETTING;

ASYMPTOTIC LIMITS; CONTACT LINES; ELASTIC SHEAR MODULUS; FLAMANT-CERRUTI; FORCE TRANSMISSION; INCOMPRESSIBLE SOLIDS; LIQUID SURFACE TENSION; SUBSTRATE DEFORMATION;

SURFACE TENSION;

EID: 84926367350     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2014.0813     Document Type: Article

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