Abstract
We study the behavior of thin elastic sheets that are bent and strained under a weak, smooth confinement. We show that the emerging shapes exhibit the coexistence of two types of domains. A focused-stress patch is subject to a geometric, piecewise-inextensibility constraint, whereas a diffuse-stress region is characterized by a mechanical constraint-the dominance of a single component of the stress tensor. We discuss the implications of our findings for the analysis of elastic sheets under various types of forcing.
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