Gelatin Soft Actuators: Benefits and Opportunities

S Edward, HM Golecki - Actuators, 2023 - mdpi.com
Soft robots are being developed as implantable devices and surgical tools with increasing
frequency. As this happens, new attention needs to be directed at the materials used to …

Visco-hyperelastic constitutive modeling of strain rate sensitive soft materials

K Upadhyay, G Subhash, D Spearot - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics …, 2020 - Elsevier
A novel viscous dissipation potential is proposed for the visco-hyperelastic constitutive
modeling of short-time memory responses of soft materials, which can capture both linear …

A hybrid polymer–water peridynamics model for ballistic penetration damage of soft materials

J Huang, LW Zhang, KM Liew - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Numerically understanding the dynamic response of soft materials subject to high-speed
penetration is crucial for advancing transdermal delivery technologies and analyzing injuries …

Dynamic responses of Ca-alginate/polyacrylamide hydrogels at high strain rates

Q Xue, Y Xiao, X Zhang, X Zhang, W Hong… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Elsevier
Many biological hydrogels possess remarkable mechanical performances under both quasi-
static and impact loadings, yet such mechanical robustness over a wide range of strain rates …

Modeling of hyperelastic polymer gels under blunt ballistic impact with three-dimensional flexibilities

BB Yin, WK Sun, Y Zhang, KM Liew - Computer Methods in Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
Polymer gels are promising surrogates for human tissues, whereas simulating the behavior
of these materials in 3D scenarios, particularly when they are subjected to dynamic loads …

Physics-informed data-driven discovery of constitutive models with application to strain-rate-sensitive soft materials

K Upadhyay, JN Fuhg, N Bouklas… - Computational Mechanics, 2024 - Springer
A novel data-driven constitutive modeling approach is proposed, which combines the
physics-informed nature of modeling based on continuum thermodynamics with the benefits …

Experimental and numerical study on failure mechanisms of the 7.62 25 mm FMJ projectile and hyperelastic target material during ballistic impact

P Zochowski, M Cegła, K Szczurowski… - Continuum Mechanics …, 2023 - Springer
The main aim of the work was the experimental and numerical analysis of the energy
absorption/dissipation capabilities and failure mechanisms of novel hyper-elastic target …

Visco-hyperelastic material model fitting to experimental stress–strain curves using a genetic algorithm and its application to soft tissue simulants

S Gómez-Garraza, R de Santos, D Infante-García… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Ballistic impacts on human thorax without penetration can produce severe injuries or even
death of the carrier. Soft tissue finite element models must capture the non-linear elasticity …

Determination of the hyper-viscoelastic model parameters of open-cell polymer foams and rubber-like materials with high accuracy

B Fazekas, TJ Goda - Materials & Design, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper focuses on a newly-developed method for the extraction of the accurate hyper-
viscoelastic model parameters of open-cell polymer foams and rubber-like materials …

[HTML][HTML] Time–temperature correlations of amorphous thermoplastics at large strains based on molecular dynamics simulations

W Zhao, R Xiao, P Steinmann, S Pfaller - Mechanics of Materials, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, we investigate the time–temperature correlation of amorphous thermoplastics
at large strains based on coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. This correlation …