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Active control of wrinkling in soft film-substrate composites using electric fields is a critical challenge in tunable material systems. Here, we investigate the electro-mechanical instability of a soft dielectric film bonded to a…
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Identifying a universal material constitutive law, that describes the mechanical response of rubber-like solids for all deformation fields and achievable extensions, is an outstanding challenge. Here, we propose to exploit the propagation…
Spatial heterogeneity in the elastic properties of soft random solids is investigated via a two-pronged approach. First, a nonlocal phenomenological model for the elastic free energy is examined. This features a quenched random kernel,…
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