The Mechanics of Ribbons and Möbius Bands

Foreword.- Translation of Michael Sadowsky’s Paper “An Elementary Proof for the Existence of a Developable Möbius Band and the Attribution of the Geometric Problem to a Variational Problem.- Translation and Interpretation of Michael Sadowsky’s Paper “Theory of Elastically Bendable Inextensible Bands with Applications to Möbius Band”.- Translation of Michael Sadowsky’s Paper “The Differential Equations of the Möbius Band”.- Translation of W. Wunderlich’s “On a Developable Möbius Band.- Gamma-Limit of a Model for the Elastic Energy of an Inextensible Ribbon.- “Wunderlich, Meet Kirchhoff”: A General and Unified Description of Elastic Ribbons and Thin Rods.- Equilibrium Shapes with Stress Localisation for Inextensible Elastic Möbius and Other Strips.- Bending Paper and the Möbius Strip.- Roadmap to the Morphological Instabilities of a Stretched Twisted Ribbon.- The Shrinking Figure Eight and Other Solitons for the Curve Diffusion Flow.- Kinematical Aspects of Levi-Civita Transport of Vectors and Tensors Along a Surface Curve.- Non-Euclidean Ribbons.- The Second-Order L 2 Flow of Inextensible Elastic Curves with Hinged Ends in the Plane.- Buckling of Naturally Curved Elastic Strips: The Ribbon Model Makes a Difference.- Residual Stresses and Poisson’s Effect Drive Shape Formation and Transition of Helical Structures.- Representation for a Smooth Isometric Mapping from a Connected Planar Domain to a Surface.