Advances in soft materials are reshaping the design of next-generation devices, particularly where flexibility, adaptability, ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. A computational phantom Force Balance, Maximum Entropy Homogenization Procedure is ...

Soil-facing mechanical interactions play an important role in the behavior of earth-retaining walls. Generally, numerical analysis of earth-retaining structures requires the use of interface elements ...

Strong heterogeneity of pore microstructures leads to complicated velocity-porosity relationships in tight sandstone that cannot be well explained by conventional empirical formulas. To better ...

Punching shear failure of flat concrete slabs is a complex phenomenon with brittle failure mode, meaning sudden structural failure and rapid decrease of load carrying capacity. Due to these reasons, ...

1 College of Food Science and Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China. 2 Qingdao No.58 High School, Qingdao, China. Natural gums are polysaccharides consisting of multiple sugar units ...

In ordinary solids, shocks are extreme mechanical phenomena: they occur when rigid materials are subjected to violent impacts. However, weakly connected amorphous solids, such as glasses and polymer ...