Widespread concerns over the impact of human activity on the environment have resulted in
a desire to replace artificial functional materials with naturally derived alternatives. As such …

When pursuing sustainable approaches to fabricate photonic structures, nature can be used
as a source of inspiration for both the nanoarchitecture and the constituent materials …

This article presents original work combining a NURBS-based inverse analysis with both
kinematic and constitutive nonlinearities to recover the applied loads and deformations of …

Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are biosourced chiral nanorods that can form stable colloidal
suspensions able to spontaneously assemble above a critical concentration into a …

In this paper, we focus on the mechanical performance of fibers naturally derived from plants
as reinforcement of a composite structure. A nonlinear constitutive model for the whole …

We investigate the swelling dynamics driven by solvent absorption in a hydrogel sphere
immersed in a solvent bath, through a computational model and a numerical study. We …

When a polymer network is exposed to a suitable solvent, the migration of solvent molecules
into the network will cause volumetric deformation, known as swelling, but more importantly …

In the present work we develop a thermodynamically consistent, large deformation
homogenized constitutive model to predict high-temperature oxidation in fiber-reinforced …

Proposed herein is a new theory for the anisotropic deformation of fiber-reinforced
hydrogels. This new model takes into account the real fabrication of the fiber-reinforced …

The paper presents a modified theoretical framework for isotropic and anisotropic
deformation of hydrogels in both steady and transient states. By applying the kinematic …