INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
(c) Wavy edge of a BlueStar Fern leaf.
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(c) Wavy edge of a BlueStar Fern leaf.
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Schematic illustration of the experimental setup.
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Schematic illustration of the experimental setup.
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(c) Wavy edge of a BlueStar Fern leaf.
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Schematic illustration of the experimental setup.
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For their experiments, the authors of the PRL paper selected samples of Monk's head cheese wheels from
the Fromagerie de Bellelay brand that had been aged between three and six months
They cut each cheese wheel in half and mounted each half on a Girolle, motorizing the base to ensure a constant speed of rotation and making
sure the blade was in a fixed position
Their measurements of how the cheese deformed during scraping enabled them to build a model based on metal dynamics on a two-dimensional
surface that had "cheese-like properties."The results showed that there was a variable friction between the core and the edge of the cheese
wheel, because the core stayed fresher during the ripening process
resemblance to frilly rosettes.This essentially amounts to a new shaping mechanism with the possibility of being able to one day program
complex shaping from "a simple scraping process," per the authors
"Our analysis provides the tools for a better control of flower chip morphogenesis through plasticity in the shaping of other delicacies,
but also in metal cutting," they concluded
Granted, "flower-shaped chips have never been reported in metal cutting
But even in such uniform materials, the fact that friction properties control the metric change is particularly interesting for material
shaping."Physical Review Letters, 2025
