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This study presents an analytical investigation of stress distributions in square-shaped elastic bodies subjected to concentrated compressive loads under uniaxial and biaxial conditions. By employing the Airy stress function method, we…

Classical Physics · Physics 2026-01-22 Ryu Suzuki , Shintaro Hokada , Satoshi Takada

We propose a data-driven constitutive framework for anisotropic damage mechanics based on the second-order damage tensor approach for both compressible and incompressible materials. The formulation is thermodynamically consistent and…

Applied Physics · Physics 2025-08-11 Amirhossein Amiri-Hezaveh , Adrian Buganza Tepole

The elastic behavior of materials is of critical importance for the design, fabrication, and testing of industrial and structural components. The ease with which the wave angle of incidence can be varied makes ultrasonic techniques well…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-14 Diego Cowes , Juan I. Mieza , MArtín P. Gómez

In the article, hyperelastic material models which state consistent polynomial expansions of the stored energy function are discussed. The approach follows from the muliplicative decomposition of the deformation gradient. Some advantages of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2021-01-18 Aleksander Franus , Staniław Jemioło

The nonlinear mechanics of a flexible elastic rod constrained at its edges by a pair of sliding sleeves is analyzed. The planar equilibrium configurations of this variable-length elastica are found to have shape defined only by the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-09-19 Alessandro Cazzolli , Francesco Dal Corso

In this paper, we introduce tensor involved peridynamics, a unified framework for simulating both isotropic and anisotropic materials. While traditional peridynamics models effectively simulate isotropic materials, they face challenges with…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-12-23 Hao Tian , Jinlong Shao , Chenguang Liu , Shuo Liu , Xu Guo

In the present work, neural networks are applied to formulate parametrised hyperelastic constitutive models. The models fulfill all common mechanical conditions of hyperelasticity by construction. In particular, partially input-convex…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Dominik K. Klein , Fabian J. Roth , Iman Valizadeh , Oliver Weeger

To model ferromagnetic material in finite element analysis a correct description of the constitutive relationship (BH-law) must be found from measured data. This article proposes to use the energy density function as a centrepiece. Using…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2012-12-21 Jens Krause

This paper deals with the rigorous study of the diffusive stress relaxation in the multidimensional system arising in the mathematical modeling of viscoelastic materials. The control of an appropriate high order energy shall lead to the…

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The loading of a granular material induces anisotropies of the particle arrangement (fabric) and of the material's strength, incremental stiffness, and permeability. Thirteen measures of fabric anisotropy are developed, which are arranged…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-12-21 Matthew R. Kuhn , WaiChing Sun , Qi Wang

We prove that if the associated fourth order tensor of a quadratic form has a linear elastic cubic symmetry then it is quasiconvex if and only if it is polyconvex, i.e. a sum of convex and null-Lagrangian quadratic forms. We prove that…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2016-11-26 Davit Harutyunyan , Graeme Walter Milton

Accurate constitutive models of soft materials are crucial for understanding their mechanical behavior and ensuring reliable predictions in the design process. To this end, scientific machine learning research has produced flexible and…

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A sharp-interface model describing static equilibrium configurations of shape mory alloys by means of interfacial polyconvex energy density introduced by \v{S}ilhav\'y in 2010 and extended to a quasistatic situation by Kn\"upfer and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Miroslav Frost , Martin Kružík , Jan Valdman

We establish partial H\"older continuity of the gradient for equilibrium configurations of vectorial multidimensional variational problems, involving bulk and surface energies. The bulk energy densities are uniformly strictly quasiconvex…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Menita Carozza , Luca Esposito , Lorenzo Lamberti

This paper models stress softening during cyclic loading and unloading of an elastomer. The paper begins by remodelling the primary loading curve to include a softening function and goes on to derive non-linear transversely isotropic…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-05-19 S. R. Rickaby , N. H. Scott

Using a geometrically motivated 8-parameter ansatz through the thickness, we reduce a three-dimensional shell-like geometrically nonlinear Cosserat material to a fully two-dimensional shell model. Curvature effects are fully taken into…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2019-09-30 Mircea Birsan , Ionel-Dumitrel Ghiba , Robert J. Martin , Patrizio Neff

Randomly textured polycrystalline materials of constituents with highly anisotropic nature of grains can be considered globally isotropic. In order to determine the isotropic properties, like elasticity or conductivity, we propose a theory…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-07 Adam Takacs , Géza Tichy , Péter Dusán Ispánovity

Energies and equilibrium equations for thin elastic plates are discussed, with emphasis on several issues pertinent to recent approaches in soft condensed matter. Consequences of choice of basis, choice of invariant strain measures, and of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-06-04 J. A. Hanna

In isotropic finite elasticity, unlike in the linear elastic theory, a homogeneous Cauchy stress may be induced by non-homogeneous strains. To illustrate this, we identify compatible non-homogeneous three-dimensional deformations producing…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-04-04 L. Angela Mihai , Patrizio Neff

The transformation theory of optics and acoustics is developed for the equations of linear anisotropic elasticity. The transformed equations correspond to non-unique material properties that can be varied for a given transformation by…

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