Instability-induced patterns and their post-buckling development in soft particulate composites

D Chen, N Arora, Y Xiang, J Li, V Slesarenko… - Mechanics of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this paper, we investigated elastic instabilities in soft particulate composites under finite
strains. Through our numerical analysis, we find distinct instability modes developing in the …

Bifurcation of Fiber-Reinforced Cylindrical Membranes under‎ Extension, Inflation, and Swelling

H Topol, MJ Al-Chlaihawi, H Demirkoparan… - Journal of Applied and …, 2023 - jacm.scu.ac.ir
We analyze bifurcation for a cylindrical membrane capable of swelling subjected to
combined axial loading and internal pressure. The material is conceptualized as an isotropic …

On the helical buckling of anisotropic tubes with application to arteries

NK Jha, S Moradalizadeh, J Reinoso, H Topol… - Mechanics Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
The helical stability experienced by elastic cylinders is investigated using numerical
methods. A doubly fiber-reinforced incompressible nonlinear elastic tube subject to axial …

Two-phase piecewise homogeneous plane deformations of a fibre-reinforced neo-Hookean material with application to fibre kinking and splitting

M El Hamdaoui, J Merodio, RW Ogden - … of the Mechanics and Physics of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Two-phase piecewise homogeneous plane deformations are examined in respect of a neo-
Hookean matrix material reinforced with embedded aligned fibres characterized by a single …

Finite Deformations of Fibre-reinforced Elastic Solids with‎ Fibre Bending Stiffness: A Spectral Approach

M Shariff, J Merodio, R Bustamante - Journal of Applied and …, 2022 - jacm.scu.ac.ir
In this paper, we propose a spectral approach to model finite deformations of fibre-reinforced
elastic solids with fibre bending stiffness. The constructed constitutive equations depend on …

[HTML][HTML] Elastic instabilities of soft laminates with stiffening behavior

Q Yao, N Arora, D Chen, Y Xiang, S Rudykh - Applied Mathematical …, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the elastic instability behavior in soft periodic laminates subjected to
finite strains, with a focus on both macroscopic and microscopic instabilities. Considering the …

Superposing plane strain on anti-plane shear deformations in a special class of fiber-reinforced incompressible hyperelastic materials

M Coco, G Saccomandi - International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
The purpose of the present research is to investigate how the nonlinearity and the boundary
conditions have the power to influence the coupling of the various modes of deformation …

Crack tip fields in a fiber-reinforced hyperelastic sheet: Competing roles of fiber and matrix stiffening

Y Liu, B Moran - Mechanics Research Communications, 2022 - Elsevier
Fiber-reinforced materials are widely observed in biological tissue such as human arteries
and tendons. Characterizing the influence of fibers on crack-tip fields in such nonlinear …

Inflation, extension and torsion analysis of compressible functionally graded hyperelastic tubes

M Hajhashemkhani, MR Hematiyan - Acta Mechanica, 2020 - Springer
Problems of inflation, extension and torsion of hyperelastic rods and tubes are of great
interest for modelling and characterizing rubber-like materials and soft biological tissues. For …

Evaluating the response of a modified Gent-Thomas strain energy function having limiting chain extensibility condition in torsion and azimuthal shear

AG Sayyad, A Imam… - Polymers and Polymer …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the torsion and azimuthal shear of an
incompressible hyperelastic cylinder having a modified Gent-Thomas strain energy with …