Liquid marbles: review of recent progress in physical properties, formation techniques, and lab-in-a-marble applications in microreactors and biosensors

M Tenjimbayashi, T Mouterde, PK Roy, K Uto - Nanoscale, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Liquid marbles (LMs) are nonsticking droplets whose surfaces are covered with low-
wettability particles. Owing to their high mobility, shape reconfigurability, and widely …

A multiscale multi-permeability poroplasticity model linked by recursive homogenizations and deep learning

K Wang, WC Sun - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Many geological materials, such as shale, mudstone, carbonate rock, limestone and rock
salt are multi-porosity porous media in which pores of different scales may co-exist in the …

Meta-modeling game for deriving theory-consistent, microstructure-based traction–separation laws via deep reinforcement learning

K Wang, WC Sun - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2019 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new meta-modeling framework that employs deep reinforcement
learning (DRL) to generate mechanical constitutive models for interfaces. The constitutive …

A phase field framework for capillary-induced fracture in unsaturated porous media: Drying-induced vs. hydraulic cracking

Y Heider, WC Sun - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This manuscript introduces a unified mathematical framework to replicate both desiccation-
induced and hydraulic fracturing in low-permeable unsaturated porous materials observed …

A thermodynamics-based micro-macro elastoplastic micropolar continuum model for granular materials

J Tian, Y Lai, E Liu, C He - Computers and Geotechnics, 2023 - Elsevier
A micro–macro elastoplastic micropolar continuum model for granular materials in the dry
and pendular states is proposed on the basis of thermodynamics. The independent …

Computational thermo-hydro-mechanics for multiphase freezing and thawing porous media in the finite deformation range

SH Na, WC Sun - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2017 - Elsevier
A stabilized thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) finite element model is introduced to
investigate the freeze–thaw action of frozen porous media in the finite deformation range. By …

FFT-based solver for higher-order and multi-phase-field fracture models applied to strongly anisotropic brittle materials

R Ma, WC Sun - Computer methods in applied Mechanics and …, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents the application of a fast Fourier transform (FFT) based method to solve
two phase field models designed to simulate crack growth of strongly anisotropic materials …

An offline multi‐scale unsaturated poromechanics model enabled by self‐designed/self‐improved neural networks

Y Heider, HS Suh, WC Sun - International Journal for …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Supervised machine learning via artificial neural network (ANN) has gained significant
popularity for many geomechanics applications that involves multi‐phase flow and …

Computational thermomechanics of crystalline rock, Part I: A combined multi-phase-field/crystal plasticity approach for single crystal simulations

SH Na, WC Sun - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Rock salt is one of the major materials used for nuclear waste geological disposal. The
desired characteristics of rock salt, ie, high thermal conductivity, low permeability, and self …

DP-MPM: Domain partitioning material point method for evolving multi-body thermal–mechanical contacts during dynamic fracture and fragmentation

M **ao, C Liu, WC Sun - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2021 - Elsevier
We propose a material point method (MPM) to model the evolving multi-body contacts due to
crack growth and fragmentation of thermo-elastic bodies. By representing particle interface …