Translation and interpretation of Michael Sadowsky's paper "Theory of elastically bendable inextensible bands with applications to the M\"obius band"
Abstract
This article is a translation of Michael Sadowsky's original paper "Theorie der elastisch biegsamen undehnbaren B\"ander mit Anwendungen auf das M\"obiussche Band" in 3. internationaler Kongress f\"ur technische Mechanik, Stockholm, 1930. The translation is augmented by an Appendix containing an interpretation of the last section of Sadowsky's original paper including figures generated from recent numerical simulations.
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