DOI: 10.1177/10812865261500765 ISSN: 1081-2865

Notes on a fractal shell triangle

Marcelo Epstein, Philip Vernon

The stiffness of a material Sierpiński triangle incorporating membrane, drilling, and flexural effects is derived by using a principle of stiffness self-similarity. It is shown that the mechanical response is completely characterized by just three material parameters. The results can be considered as exact within the framework of linear isotropic infinitesimal elasticity.

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