Journal of Applied Mechanics

Framework by Yonggang Liu, Shaobao Liu, Moxiao Li and Tian Jian Lu for ureteral pain due to kidney stones demonstrates that kidney stones with sizes 7.5% ∼20% larger than the ureter inner diameter leads to dramatically increased ureteral pain. Learn more: doi.org/10.1115/1.4062…

A new technique achieves fully reversible giant deformations in dielectric elastomer membranes using short-duration voltage pulses. Learn more in a recent paper by Christopher Cooley and Robert Lowe in Journal of Applied Mechanics : doi.org/10.1115/1.4062…

Bhavesh Shrimali and Oscar Lopez-Pamies explain the trousers fracture test for viscoelastic elastomers using the fundamental form of Griffith criticality condition. Learn more in Journal of Applied Mechanics: doi.org/10.1115/1.4062…

New in Journal of Applied Mechanics: How is brain folding influenced by cerebrospinal fluid pressure? Learn more in a recent study by Fatemeh Jafarabadi, Shuolun Wang and Maria Holland: doi.org/10.1115/1.4057…

Water-triggered shape memory hydrogels transition between the sparse and dense phases. Yiheng Xue , Zidi Zhou, Jincheng Lei, Zishun Liu propose a constitutive model for this shape memory behavior and validate it with experiments. Learn more: doi.org/10.1115/1.4056…

Can we avoid failure due to stress concentrations in 3D printing? Learn more about a grayscale digital light processing (g-DLP) 3D printing technique in a recent paper by Connor T. Forte, S. Macrae Montgomery, Liang Yue, Craig M. Hamel and H. Jerry Qi. doi.org/10.1115/1.4056…

Wenbo Pang, Liya Liu, Shiwei Xu, Yumeng Shuai, Jianzhong Zhao and Yihui Zhang present an electroadhesion-mediated strategy to actively control interface delamination of the film/substrate system during the assembly of reconfigurable 3D structures. doi.org/10.1115/1.4056…

The buckling of thin shells is extremely sensitive to imperfections. How do dimpled vs. bumpy defects compare in dictating the buckling strength? Learn more in a recent paper by Arefeh Abbasi, Fani Derveni, and Pedro Reis from the @flexlab_epfl: doi.org/10.1115/1.4056…

Yipin Su, An Xin, and Qiming Wang present a modeling framework that explains the mechanism of the self-enhancement behavior of growing lattice composites. Learn more in the Journal of Applied Mechanics: doi.org/10.1115/1.4056…

New in Journal of Applied Mechanics: Yue Wang, Yingying Ren, and Tian Chen provide a tutorial on applying conformal mapping to generate planar structures that transform to target 3D shapes for material systems from kirigami to hydrogels. Learn more: doi.org/10.1115/1.4056…

Numerical and experimental study of quasi-static and dynamic compressive behaviors of CFRP Kagome lattice structures indicates both in-plane stiffness and the failure mode of CFRP Kagome lattice structure are sensitive to the load directions. Learn more: doi.org/10.1115/1.4056…

The Smooth Crack Band Model (sCBM) by Yupeng Zhang and Zdenek Bazant overcomes the limitations of the original CBM by introducing a localization-resisting energy that allows controlling the crack front width. Learn more in the Journal of Applied Mechanics: doi.org/10.1115/1.4056…

Prashant Jha, Jason Marshall, Jaroslaw Knap, and Kaushik Dayal develop a new multiscale modeling framework for defects in crystals that accounts for the nonlocal electrostatic interactions. Discover more in the Journal of Applied Mechanics: doi.org/10.1115/1.4056…

New in Journal of Applied Mechanics: Zeang Zhao, Panding Wang, Shengyu Duan, Ming Lei, and Hongshuai Lei present a continuum phase field model that predicts damage initiation and crack propagation in multiple network elastomers. Learn more: doi.org/10.1115/1.4056…

What is the mechanism behind the self-assembly and growth of intercellular junctions in response to membrane tension and cytoskeletal contraction? Discover more in the Journal of Applied Mechanics: doi.org/10.1115/1.4055…

New in ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics: @ProfBuehlerMIT reports a new physics-inspired Machine Learning model that can predict the temporal sequence of fracture and the atomic-level mechanisms by which materials fail over time. Learn more: doi.org/10.1115/1.4055…