Effect of tool angle on fracture pattern in polymer sheets:

This project will continue work described by our group in a recent publication:

Unzip instabilities: Straight to oscillatory transitions in the cutting of thin polymer sheets

P. M. Reis, A. Kumar, M. D. Shattuck and B. Roman

EPL 82 (6) 64002 (2008)

More information on this project is available from Mark Shattuck.