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• Energy Barriers for Reversible Chain Scission and Healing under Tension with Displacement Control

  Mohammad Ansari, Kenneth Liechti, Dmitrii Makarov, Rui Huang

  Downloads: 18 - Submitted 2026-04-12 - Posted 2026-04-12

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• Hamilton-Jacobi as model reduction, extension to Newtonian particle mechanics, and a wave mechanical curiosity

  Amit Acharya

  Downloads: 27 - Submitted 2026-04-12 - Posted 2026-04-12

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• The strain-energy function for combined bending and stretching of incompressible isotropic elastic plates∗

  David Steigmann

  Downloads: 46 - Submitted 2026-04-12 - Posted 2026-04-12

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• Stress Asymmetry in Hard Magnetic Soft Materials

  Hatice Gokcen Guner, Francois Barthelat, John D. Clayton, Carlos Mora-Corral, Noel Walkington, Kaushik Dayal

  • elasticity
  • Stress, Magnetization
  • Angular momentum
  • Equilibrium (Physics)
  • Kinematics
  • Magnetic particles
  • Polymers

  Downloads: 37 - Submitted 2026-04-01 - Posted 2026-04-07

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• Scalable Thermoset Informatics and On-Demand Discovery through Autonomous Experimentation

  Marcus R Fratarcangeli, Ayush Jain, Farzad Gholami, Jiaqi Nie, H. Jerry Qi, Rampi Ramprasad

  Downloads: 23 - Submitted 2026-04-05 - Posted 2026-04-05

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• Programming nonlinear mechanical responses by topology optimization of limit-point instabilities

  Zongliang Du, Tanghuai Bian, Yunhang Guo, Zhiang Xu, Anxian Huang, Huajian Gao, Xu Guo

  Downloads: 29 - Submitted 2026-04-02 - Posted 2026-04-02

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• On the Statistical Mechanics of Active Membranes: Some Selected Results

  Sreekanth Ramesh, Prashant Purohit, Yashashree Kulkarni

  • Fluctuations
  • Non-equilibrium statistical mechanics
  • Active membranes
  • Langevin equation

  Downloads: 26 - Submitted 2026-04-01 - Posted 2026-04-02 - Versions: 2

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• Extraordinarily high fractocohesive lengths in polymer-like networks

  Chase Hartquist, Sanketh Challagulla, Shu Wang, Bolei Deng, Gareth McKinley, Xuanhe Zhao

  • fractocohesive length, fracture, rupture, polymer-like networks, flaw sensitivity

  Downloads: 31 - Submitted 2026-04-02 - Posted 2026-04-02

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