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• Inward buckling of spiral layered structures subject to volumetric expansion and external constraint

  Xinran Shi, Juner Zhu

  • Archimedean spirals
  • layered structures
  • volumetric expansion
  • Rayleigh--Ritz method
  • buckling instability

  Downloads: 0 - Submitted 2026-06-15 - Posted 2026-06-15

  • Manuscript.pdf

• Crack-Parallel Tension Effects on Fracture of Soft Knitted Polymer Composites deduced from Gap Tests via Microplane Triads

  Xiaoxiao Ding, Yanzhao Niu, Yang Zhao, Hongshun Chen, Chanhyeong Bae, Anh T. Nguyen, Horacio D. Espinosa, Zdeněk P. Bažant, Jian Cao

  • fracture and damage
  • large strain
  • knitted fiber composites
  • silicone elastomers
  • microplane triad model
  • finite element analysis

  Downloads: 41 - Submitted 2026-06-12 - Posted 2026-06-12 - Versions: 2

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• A closed-form correction for three-point bend testing of functionally graded beams, with application to endovascular devices

  Charles Suskin, Juan Becerra-García, Yosef Granillo, Michael Qiu, Yuxuan Huang, Mohamed Zayed, Joshua Osbun, Guy Genin

  Downloads: 29 - Submitted 2026-06-12 - Posted 2026-06-12

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• Nonlinear Anisotropic Visco-Anelasticity

  Souhayl Sadik, Arash Yavari

  Downloads: 17 - Submitted 2026-06-10 - Posted 2026-06-10

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• Harnessing Functional Gradients for Enhanced Shock Absorption in Foam Materials

  Bhanugoban Maheswaran, Komal Chawla, Ramathasan Thevamaran

  • Functionally graded materials
  • Dynamic compression
  • Shock mitigation
  • Carbon nanotube foams
  • Shock model

  Downloads: 23 - Submitted 2026-06-09 - Posted 2026-06-09

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• Analysis of Stress Wave Interaction with a 180° Bend Junction Between Two Square Bars

  Salil Bavdekar, Joaquin S A Garcia, Amith A Cheenady, Andres Bernardo, Ghatu Subhash

  • wave mechanics
  • wave propagation
  • waveguide
  • transfer function
  • DIC

  Downloads: 19 - Submitted 2026-06-09 - Posted 2026-06-09

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• Competitive Hardening Dynamics in Viscoplastic Materials with Evolving Threshold Stress

  Yo-Lun Yang

  Downloads: 17 - Submitted 2026-05-14 - Posted 2026-06-07

  • Manuscript

• Universal deformations and universal residual stresses in incompressible isotropic Cauchy elasticity

  Arash Yavari

  Downloads: 28 - Submitted 2026-06-05 - Posted 2026-06-05

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• On the stability of Euler’s elastica with natural curvature: Out-of-plane bifurcation with twisting

  Lu Lu, Sophie Leanza, Ruike Renee Zhao, John Hutchinson

  • The elastica; Euler buckling; Out-of-plane bifurcation; Natural curvature; Imperfection

  Downloads: 31 - Submitted 2026-06-04 - Posted 2026-06-04

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• In-Plane Wave Homogenization and the Emergent Electromomentum Tensor

  Paramveer Sharma, Gal Shmuel

  • Dynamic homogenization
  • Willis coupling
  • Electromomentum coupling
  • Composites
  • metamaterials
  • Piezoelectricity
  • Bloch Waves

  Downloads: 40 - Submitted 2026-05-28 - Posted 2026-05-28

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• Sequential prediction of transverse crack paths in CFRP composites via a deep learning approach

  Xin Yan

  • deeplearning, composites, crack propogation

  Downloads: 34 - Submitted 2026-05-28 - Posted 2026-05-28

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• Nonlinear dynamics of miniaturized dielectric elastomer actuators with surface effects

  Akhil Pratap Singh, Gal Shmuel, ATUL KUMAR SHARMA

  Downloads: 58 - Submitted 2026-05-28 - Posted 2026-05-28

  • Manuscript File

• A Unified Stiffness Evolution Model and Its Application to 3D-Printed Regular and Re-Entrant Honeycombs

  Shaohua Wang

  • 3D printing
  • Honeycomb structure
  • Stiffness evolution
  • Incremental cyclic compression
  • Anisotropy
  • Collapse mechanism

  Downloads: 40 - Submitted 2026-05-24 - Posted 2026-05-24

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• Universal Displacements in Linear Strain-Gradient Elasticity

  Dimitris Sfyris, Arash Yavari

  Downloads: 39 - Submitted 2026-05-23 - Posted 2026-05-23

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• Finite Element Investigation of Optimal Reinforced Concrete Shear Wall Placement for Vibration Mitigation in Adjacent Buildings with Open-Trench Isolation

  Mohammad Torabi Yazdi, Mohsen Farsiani

  Downloads: 31 - Submitted 2026-05-21 - Posted 2026-05-21

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• Inverse Design of Metamaterials with Adaptable Force-Displacement Characteristics

  Hatice Gokcen Guner, Kaushik Dayal, Alexandra Ion

  • mechanics
  • metamaterials
  • mechanical metamaterials
  • inverse design

  Downloads: 0 - Submitted 2026-05-21 - Posted 2026-05-21

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• Phase-field model for mesoscale simulation of crystallization morphology evolution in 3D printing of thermoplastic composite

  Xin Yan

  Downloads: 42 - Submitted 2026-05-20 - Posted 2026-05-20

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• Compatibility Conditions for Singular Strain Fields on Linear Shells

  Animesh Pandey, Anurag Gupta

  Downloads: 46 - Submitted 2026-05-19 - Posted 2026-05-19

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• Thermoviscoelasticity of polydomain liquid crystal elastomers regulated by soft elasticity

  Ruobing Bai

  Downloads: 76 - Submitted 2026-05-12 - Posted 2026-05-12

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• Fractional Calculus based Elasticity obtained from Homogenization

  Kshiteej Deshmukh, Liping Liu, Pradeep Sharma

  • fractional calculus
  • homogenization

  Downloads: 92 - Submitted 2026-05-11 - Posted 2026-05-11

  • Fractional paper

• Contact loss in all solid-state Li-ion batteries via deposition of impurities

  Sundeep Vema, James Gott, Hao Yin, Ashley Roach, Geoff West, Norman Fleck, Vikram Deshpande, Clare Grey

  • Lithium metal
  • solid electrolyte
  • contact loss
  • impurities
  • voids

  Downloads: 113 - Submitted 2026-05-08 - Posted 2026-05-08

  • Main paper and SI

• Finite-width adiabatic shear banding and dislocation patterning in mesoscale polycrystalline aggregates

  Siddharth Singh, Rajat Arora, Janith Wanni, Charles Adkins, Raymond Rasmussen, Noah Schmelzer, Dan Thoma, Curt Bronkhorst, Amit Acharya

  Downloads: 92 - Submitted 2026-05-07 - Posted 2026-05-08 - Versions: 2

  • ASB_cmu_ceesem_compressed.pdf

• Dynamic Mechanical Response of Spinodal Architectures Across Length and Time Scales

  Vatsa Gandhi, Rishi Kommalapati, Carlos Portela, Vikram Deshpande

  Downloads: 75 - Submitted 2026-05-06 - Posted 2026-05-06

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• Dynamic micromagnetism a la Ericksen-Leslie, and the constrained polar continuum mechanics of hard magnetic soft materials

  Amit Acharya, Siladitya Pal

  Downloads: 54 - Submitted 2026-05-06 - Posted 2026-05-06

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• Rational Mechanics of Material Strength in Brittle Solids

  Arash Yavari, Aditya Kumar

  Downloads: 69 - Submitted 2026-05-05 - Posted 2026-05-05

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