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• Tomographic observation and modelling of three-dimensional fibre waviness in prepreg draping

  Zahra Hooshmand-Ahoor, Takamitsu Suzuki, Benjamin Huang, Kevin Jose , Anthony Dennis, Benjamin Russell, Vikram Deshpande

  Downloads: 32 - Submitted 2026-10-05 - Posted 2026-10-05 - Versions: 2

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• How Does Hard Magnetic Soft Matter Deform?

  Daniel Katusele, Carmel Majidi, Liping Liu, Pradeep Sharma, Kaushik Dayal

  Downloads: 37 - Submitted 2026-10-01 - Posted 2026-10-01

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• A physics-based minimal model for perforation of a plate by a spherical projectile

  Avyukt Satish, Shailendra Joshi

  • Ballistic limit equation
  • Hertz indentation
  • Plate bending
  • impact cratering
  • Mechanincs education

  Downloads: 62 - Submitted 2026-09-26 - Posted 2026-09-26

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• Nonlocal regularization of sharp-crack energetics: a variational bridge from Griffith geometry to emergent constitutive degradation

  Yuqi Sun

  • nonlocal regularization
  • variational fracture
  • $\Gamma$-convergence
  • emergent constitutive degradation
  • adaptive finite elements

  Downloads: 89 - Submitted 2026-09-24 - Posted 2026-09-24

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• Compressive Splitting in Brittle Solids: The Inverse of Wrinkling in Sheets

  Maryam Khodadad, Francois Barthelat, John Clayton, George Gazonas, Kaushik Dayal

  Downloads: 140 - Submitted 2026-09-16 - Posted 2026-09-16

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• Microbuckling-field theory: a new model for material instabilities in cellular solids

  Ryan McAvoy

  Downloads: 82 - Submitted 2026-09-12 - Posted 2026-09-12

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• Dynamic homogenization and emergent bianisotropy in thermoelasticity

  Gal Shmuel, John R. Willis

  Downloads: 94 - Submitted 2026-09-06 - Posted 2026-09-06

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• Multiphysics Bianisotropy in Wave--Diffusion Metamaterials

  Gal Shmuel, John R. Willis

  Downloads: 74 - Submitted 2026-09-06 - Posted 2026-09-06

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• Beyond Crease Geometry: Multistability in Origami-Inspired Structures through Local Fold Architectures

  Sagi Senderovich, Ezra Ben-Abu, Shai Elbaz, Nadav Zemah, Anna Zigelman, Amir Gat

  • buckling instability
  • Constitutive behavior
  • Collapse mechanism
  • mechanical metamaterials
  • Numerical modeling
  • Snap-through instability
  • Spatial buckling

  Downloads: 75 - Submitted 2026-09-06 - Posted 2026-09-06

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• A compressible isotropic hyperelastic model combining polyconvexity and global true-stress-true-strain monotonicity

  Jinchen Xie, Ali Javili, Patrizio Neff, Christian Linder

  Downloads: 183 - Submitted 2026-08-30 - Posted 2026-08-30

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