Variation of the dominant stress component throughout six thin elastic sheets of different thicknesses confined in one direction. See also Physical Review Focus story.

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Elastic Building Blocks for Confined Sheets
Robert D. Schroll, Eleni Katifori, and Benny Davidovitch
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 074301 (2011)

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