期刊
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES
卷 467, 期 2132, 页码 2330-2349出版社
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2010.0600
关键词
non-affine; semiflexible; networks; stiff; filament; cytoskeleton
资金
- TCM EPSRC
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/F032773/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/F032773/1] Funding Source: UKRI
We present a model that assesses the different elastic responses of a semiflexible network, which either (i) is constrained to deform in an affine way or (ii) is permitted to thermally fluctuate and deviate from affine response. The thermal, non-affine response of the network is achieved using a Metropolis Monte Carlo algorithm with dynamic step size. We find that non-affine deformations soften the network dramatically at low strains and make the eventual nonlinear strain stiffening far more pronounced. We show that the effect of these non-affine deformations are very sensitive to the degree variation in the lengths of filaments connecting cross-links. Where there is high variation, non-affine deformations allow internal stresses to relax, giving rise to a smaller range of tensile forces in filaments and a dramatic reduction of network stiffness. This highlights that non-affine deformations are crucial in small strain response of stiff polymer networks.
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