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Аннотация: Abstract:
Consider a set of contacting convex figures in R^2. It is not
difficult to prove that one of these figures can be moved out of
the set by translation without disturbing others. Therefore, any
set of planar figures can be disassembled by moving all figures
one b one (as opposed to simple homothetic motion of the plane, which
automatically puts the figures out of contact with each other). One
may think that this statement holds for higher dimensions as well.
However, attempts to generalize it to R^3 have been unsuccessful. And
recently quite unexpectedly interlocking structures of convex bodies
were found such that every body was locked! These structures
cannot be disassembled by removing individual bodies one by one.
The author proposed a follows mechanical use of this effect. In a
small grain there is no room for cracks, and crack propagation
should be arrested on the boundary of the grain. On the other hand,
grains keep each other. So it is possible to get "materials without
crack propagation" and get new use of sparse materials, say ceramics.
Quite unexpectedly, such structures can be assembled with any
type of platonic polyhedra, and they have a geometric beauty. The
talk will be devoted to such structures. They may be interesting in
nanotechnology.
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