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• Constrained minimization problems and FFT-based solvers: application to local Dirichlet boundary conditions and contact mechanics

  Lionel GELEBART, Yaovi Armand Amouzou-Adoun

  Downloads: 0 - Submitted 2026-07-21 - Posted 2026-07-21

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• Model-Informed Joint Material-Structural Optimization of Hard-Magnetic Soft Materials

  Ian Galloway, Prashant Jha

  • Hard-magnetic soft materials
  • topology optimization
  • constitutive model selection
  • structure-property relations
  • magneto-mechanical coupling
  • joint material-structural design

  Downloads: 12 - Submitted 2026-07-17 - Posted 2026-07-17

  • arXiv.2607.14397v1.pdf

• Energetics of Nucleation in Finitely Deformed, Phase-Transforming Soft Solids

  Mrityunjay Kothari

  Downloads: 13 - Submitted 2026-07-17 - Posted 2026-07-17

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• Bifurcation reordering programs snap-through symmetry in folded elastic ribbons

  Weicheng Huang

  • Elastic ribbon
  • Snap-through instability
  • Discrete simulation
  • Reduced-order toy model

  Downloads: 17 - Submitted 2026-07-16 - Posted 2026-07-17

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• Modeling Stress-Enhanced Photo-Degradation in Amorphous Glassy Polymers

  Keven Alkhoury, Shawn Chester, Laurence Brassart

  • Constitutive behavior
  • Degradable polymers
  • Renewable polymers
  • Stress-enhanced photo-degradation
  • Stress-enhanced UV degradation

  Downloads: 10 - Submitted 2026-07-16 - Posted 2026-07-16

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• A non-local constitutive model for the Mullins effect in filled elastomers

  Keven Alkhoury

  • Mullins effect
  • Non-local
  • Finite element Method
  • Lage deformation

  Downloads: 22 - Submitted 2026-07-15 - Posted 2026-07-15

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• Harnessing disorder to decouple extension and shear in kirigami metamaterials

  Haomin Yu, Hanxun Jin, Mingxuan Bi, Mohammad Jafari, Feng Helen Long, Michael J Greenberg, Farid Alisafaei, Guy Genin

  • Stochastic kirigami metamaterials
  • Inverse design
  • Bio-inspired materials
  • Surrogate modeling
  • Graph neural networks
  • metamaterials

  Downloads: 58 - Submitted 2026-07-13 - Posted 2026-07-13

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• Dendrite-growth resistance in solid state electrolytes

  Chenjie Gan, Siyuan Song, Zikang Yu, Brian Sheldon, Pradeep Guduru, Kyung-Suk Kim

  • Solid-state electrolyte
  • Joule-heating-induced temperature gradient
  • Thermal stress intensity factor
  • Electro-chemo-mechanical embrittlement/toughening
  • Threshold current density
  • Dendrite/crack growth resistance

  Downloads: 41 - Submitted 2026-07-10 - Posted 2026-07-11

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• Impedance-Guided Programmable Transmission of Localized Deformation in Modular Soft Metamaterials

  Xiaojia Shelly Zhang, Weiyun Xu, Daewon Hong, Zhi Zhao

  • mechanical metamaterials
  • Modular
  • Topology optimization
  • Impedance
  • Deformation transmission
  • Assembly

  Downloads: 25 - Submitted 2026-07-09 - Posted 2026-07-09

  • Manuscript

• Modeling damage and fracture in additively manufactured polymeric triply periodic minimal surface lattices

  Abhishek Gupta, Aditya Konale, Ke Ma, Keven Alkhoury, Pradeep Guduru, Yuri Bazilevs, Vikas Srivastava

  Downloads: 55 - Submitted 2026-07-06 - Posted 2026-07-06

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