Mechanical self-assembly of a strain-engineered flexible layer: wrinkling, rolling, and twisting

Z Chen, G Huang, I Trase, X Han, Y Mei - Physical Review Applied, 2016 - APS
Self-sha** of curved structures, especially those involving flexible thin layers, is attracting
increasing attention because of their broad potential applications in, eg …

Handedness-dependent hyperelasticity of biological soft fibers with multilayered helical structures

ZL Zhao, B Li, XQ Feng - International journal of non-linear mechanics, 2016 - Elsevier
Collagen fibrils with multilayered helical structures widely exist in biological soft tissues, eg,
blood vessels, tendons, and ligaments. Understanding the mechanical properties of this kind …

A helical actuator driven by biased SMA: design, model, and experiment

K ** of versatile morphologies of thin structures
in natural and synthetic systems. The study of nonlinear mechanics approximated by linear …

RETRACTED ARTICLE: CHIRAL GROWTH OF THIN BIOMATERIALS INDUCED BY ANISOTROPIC STRUCTURAL MECHANICS

H Zhao, Y Zhang, L Bian, T Zhang… - Journal of Mechanics in …, 2022 - World Scientific
The Journal of Mechanics in Medicine and Biology (JMMB) has retracted the paper from its
September 2022 issue (Volume 22, Number 7, pp. 2250057 (22 pages)). This is because …

Elastic deformations and instabilities in thin fibers and films

A Fortais - 2021 - macsphere.mcmaster.ca
Systems across nearly all length scales can experience elastic deformations. The details of
how a system deforms is generally determined by i) the way stresses and loads are applied …