Significant progress has been made in mixed boundary-value problems associated with
three-dimensional (3D) crack and contact analyses of advanced materials featuring more …

There is still a challenge to realize controllable attachment and detachment in the adhesive
devices. New approaches of the controllable or reversible adhesion need to be developed …

Tunable and reversible dry adhesion possess great potential in a wide range of applications
including transfer printing, climbing robots, wearable devices/electronics, and grip** in …

Layered piezoelectric structures have found wide applications in micro-electro-mechanical
systems (MEMS) due to their intrinsic electro-mechanical coupling effect. The adhesion …

Frictionless indentation responses of transversely isotropic piezoelectric film/rigid substrate
systems under circular cylindrical indenter (ie, punch), conical indenter (ie, cone), and …

The frictionless contact problem of a functionally graded piezoelectric layered half-plane in-
plane strain state under the action of a rigid flat or cylindrical punch is investigated in this …

It is difficult to analytically solve the contact problem of one-dimensional hexagonal
quasicrystal (1DHQ) coating considering the coupling effects of adhesion, friction force and …

The adhesive contact behavior between two dissimilar transversely isotropic piezoelectric
cylinders is investigated in this paper. The effect of adhesion on the contact behavior …

The effect of temperature on adhesion is neglected in classical adhesive contact theories.
However, an increasing number of experimental results indicate that temperature has a …

This article is devoted to studying the adhesive contact problem for a spherical indenter on a
half-space of the transversely isotropic multi-ferroic composite materials in a systematic …