Sissi de Beer

Sissi de Beer studied physics at Twente University. Her Ph.D. research was concerned with the experimental and numerical study of confined liquids. She is now a postdoctoral fellow at the Jülich Supercomputing Centre.

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Surface Folds Make Tears and Chips

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Sissi de Beer and Martin H. Müser, Published September 4, 2012

fluids | materials

Fluidlike folding instabilities of solid surfaces complicate the machining of metals to perfection