Fiber dynamics

This is work of Gopinath Subramanian and Catalin Picu at RPI on the effect of friction in the dynamics of fiber networks. In the movie, a mass of randomly oriented fibers undergoes isostatic compression, and is then allowed to expand. Upon expansion, the originally uniform density fiber network is transformed into a heterogeneous solid with pockets of fiber-rich and fiber-deprived regions. The visualization was done using VMD.