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In the present short note, we attempt further validations and comparisons of a recent simple model for the estimate for adhesion between elastic (hard) rough solids with Gaussian multiple scales of roughness, BAM (Bearing Area Model)…
The effects of shear on energy release rate and mode mixity in a symmetric sandwich beam with isotropic layers and a debond crack at the face sheet/core interface are investigated through a semi-analytic approach based on two-dimensional…
We report on a numerical study of the shear flow of a simple two-dimensional model of a granular material under controlled normal stress between two parallel smooth, frictional walls, moving with opposite velocities $\pm$V . Discrete…
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We experimentally characterize the impact response of concentrated suspensions consisting of cornstarch and water. We observe that the suspensions support a large normal stress -- on the order of MPa -- with a delay after the impactor hits…
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Inflated-beam soft robots, such as tip-everting vine robots, can control curvature by contracting one beam side via pneumatic actuation. This work develops a general finite element modeling approach to characterize their bending. The model…
Dissipated energy, representing a monotonically increasing state variable in nonlinear fracture mechanics, can be used as a restraint for tracing the dissipation instead of the elastic unloading path of the structure response. In this work,…
We propose a novel approach to the linear viscoelastic problem of shear-deformable geometrically exact beams. The generalized Maxwell model for one-dimensional solids is here efficiently extended to the case of arbitrarily curved beams…