Prestrain-induced contraction in 1D random elastic chains

Ihusan Adam, 2 Franco Bagnoli, 3 Duccio Fanelli, 3 L. Mahadevan, and Paolo Paoletti Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence, Florence, Italy Department of Physics and Astronomy, and CSDC, University of Florence, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy INFN, Florence Section, Sesto Fiorentino, Italy School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Department of Physics, and Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA School of Engineering, University of Liverpool, L69 3GH Liverpool, UK