Machine learning applications in nanomaterials: Recent advances and future perspectives

L Yang, H Wang, D Leng, S Fang, Y Yang… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
Nanomaterials demonstrate enormous potential applications in various scientific and
engineering fields due to their unique physical and chemical properties. With the rapid …

Shark Skin Denticles: From Morphological Diversity to Multi‐functional Adaptations and Applications

A Ghimire, RB Dahl, SF Shen… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The energy crisis of the 1970s sparked growing concern over minimizing fuel consumption
in water, land, and air transportation. Researchers fascinated by sharks' effortless swimming …

A unified level set method for simulating mixed granular flows involving multiple non-spherical DEM models in complex structures

S Wang, S Ji - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Since the mixed granular flows containing multiple non-spherical DEM models in complex
structures are still challenging for DEM applications, a unified method for creating level set …

Fish scale inspired structures—A review of materials, manufacturing and models

MS Hossain, H Ebrahimi, R Ghosh - Bioinspiration & Biomimetics, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Fish scale inspired materials and structures can provide advanced mechanical properties
and functionalities. These materials, inspired by fish scales, take the form of either composite …

Damage-tolerant material design motif derived from asymmetrical rotation

W Wang, SJ Chen, W Chen, W Duan, JZ Lai… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Motifs extracted from nature can lead to significant advances in materials design and have
been used to tackle the apparent exclusivity between strength and damage tolerance of …

An interface-enhanced discrete element model (I-DEM) of bio-inspired flexible protective structures

D Wu, Z Zhao, H Gao - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Natural organisms have evolved protective structures that help them survive environmental
threats without sacrificing flexibility. While the discrete element method (DEM) has been …

A sequential mobile packing algorithm for micromechanical assessment of heterogeneous materials

A Bahmani, RY Nooraie, TL Willett… - Composites Science and …, 2023 - Elsevier
A new non-uniform sequential mobile packing (NSMP) algorithm featuring an efficient
collision detection scheme was developed to rapidly generate representative volume …

Wave propagation across a functionally graded interphase between soft and hard solids: Insight from a dynamic surface elasticity model

A Aghaei, N Bochud, G Rosi, S Naili - Journal of the Mechanics and Physics …, 2021 - Elsevier
Joining soft to hard materials is a challenging problem in modern engineering applications.
In order to alleviate stress concentrations at the interface between materials with such a …

[HTML][HTML] Unravelling the physics and mechanisms behind slips and falls on icy surfaces: A comprehensive review and nature-inspired solutions

V Richhariya, A Tripathy, O Carvalho, MJ Nine… - Materials & Design, 2023 - Elsevier
Slip and Fall (SF) on slippery icy/snowy surfaces during winters is evident worldwide,
especially in Nordic regions. Every year millions of people slip and fall due to ice accretion …

Fish scales and their biomimetic applications

AA Yaseen, T Waqar, MAA Khan, M Asad… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Biomaterials are evolving quite rapidly over the last decade. Many applications have been
considered toward their involvement in saving lives in the line of duty for law enforcement …