Ref HAL: hal-01869797_v1
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2018.07.024
WoS: 000446291200012
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We investigate the non-linear buckling patterns produced by the elastic Rayleigh-Taylor instability in a hyper-elastic slab hanging below a rigid horizontal plane, using a combination of experiments, weakly non-linear expansions and numerical simulations. Our experiments reveal the formation of hexagonal patterns through a discontinuous transition. As the unbuckled state is transversely isotropic, a continuum of linear modes become critical at the first bifurcation load: the critical wavevectors form a circle contained in a horizontal plane. Using a weakly non-linear post-bifurcation expansion, we investigate how these linear modes cooperate to produce buckling patterns: by a mechanism documented in other transversely isotropic structures, three-modes coupling make the unbuckled configuration unstable with respect to hexagonal patterns by a transcritical bifurcation. Stripe and square patterns are solutions of the post-bifurcation expansion as well but they are unstable near the threshold. These analytical results are confirmed and complemented by numerical simulations.