Workshop
The shape and curvature of the twisted clasp
- Sylwester Przybył (Poznań University of Technology, Poznań, Poland)
Abstract
Shapes of the simple and twisted clasps will be described. Presented analysis will be based on numerical simulations performed with the use of an appropriately modified Finite Element Method. The calculations have been made at a sufficiently large resolution where the length of a single segment of the simulated rope of unit radius is in the order of up to 10^(-4), thus the whole representation of the simulated clasp contains about 10^5 points. The final conformations of various clasps will be analyzed from the physical point of view.
