INTRODUCTION Mechanical power, whether for launched missiles or running humans, is
limited by the universal, physical trade-off between force and velocity. However, many …

Viscous bubbles are prevalent in both natural and industrial settings. Their rupture and
collapse may be accompanied by features typically associated with elastic sheets, including …

Capillarity is the familiar manifestation of the cohesion of liquids. Since Laplace (Traité de
mécanique céleste, vol. IV, supplément au livre X: Sur l'action capillaire, 1805, pp. 1–65), we …

The interaction between waves and evolving media challenges traditional conservation
laws. We experimentally investigate the behavior of elastic wave packets crossing a moving …

Some mechanisms of shape selection and fragmentation patterns of impacted or strongly
solicited elastic bodies of simple geometry are reviewed. By strongly solicited we mean …

The wrinkling of thin elastic objects provides a means of generating regular patterning at
small scales in applications ranging from photovoltaics to microfluidic devices. Static wrinkle …

Dynamic buckling may occur when a load is rapidly applied to, or removed from, an elastic
object at rest. In contrast to its static counterpart, dynamic buckling offers a wide range of …

Biological systems can generate motions with high acceleration and velocity via dynamic
recoil. Traditionally, recoil dynamics in unstructured linear elastic systems are based on …

Elastic bars serve as primary mechanical members, spanning from atomic to macroscopic
scales. The development of theoretical frameworks for elastic bars is crucial for guiding a …

Elastically-driven motion has been used as a strategy to achieve high speeds in small
organisms and engineered micro-robotic devices. We examine the size-scaling relations …