Abstract
One shaping method of soft elastic bodies is growth. This method, which is very common in natural systems and much less in man-made structures, is inherently different from shaping by external loading. In the second case the body responses passively to the constraints imposed on its boundaries. It has a reference stress-free configuration and the task is to compute and minimize the elastic energy of configurations that fulfill the boundary conditions. In the case of self-shaping by growth, the body is free in space, but contains a field of active growth, or deformation, which determines the shape of the body.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Mechanical Self-Assembly |
| Subtitle of host publication | Science and Applications |
| Publisher | Springer New York |
| Pages | 25-46 |
| Number of pages | 22 |
| Volume | 9781461445623 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781461445623 |
| ISBN (Print) | 1461445612, 9781461445616 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 Jul 2013 |
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