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Contact and compression of elastic spherical shells: The physics of a ‘ping-pong’ ball

L. Pauchard Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de ‚Ecole Normale Supérieure, Unité de Recherche associée au CNRS 1306, Associé aux Universités Paris VI et VII, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231, Paris Cedex 05, France
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S. Rica Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de ‚Ecole Normale Supérieure, Unité de Recherche associée au CNRS 1306, Associé aux Universités Paris VI et VII, 24 rue Lhomond, 75231, Paris Cedex 05, France
Pages 225-233 | Published online: 20 Aug 2009

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