In the last decade, there has been a growing trend towards flexible body wave energy
converters (WECs) enabled by rubber-like elastomeric composite membrane structures that …

Designing engineering components that make optimal use of materials requires
consideration of the nonlinear static and dynamic characteristics associated with both …

This paper presents an automatic process for fabrication‐oriented design of custom‐shaped
rubber balloons. We cast computational balloon design as an inverse problem: given a …

Purpose NiftySim, an open-source finite element toolkit, has been designed to allow
incorporation of high-performance soft tissue simulation capabilities into biomedical …

The inflation of hyperelastic thin shells is a highly nonlinear problem that arises in multiple
important engineering applications. It is characterised by severe kinematic and constitutive …

The study analyzed and compared the effects of thermal–fluid–solid coupling dynamic
boundary conditions and traditional fixed-boundary conditions on the distribution of the …

NURBS-based isogeometric analysis was first extended to thin shell/membrane structures
which allows for finite membrane stretching as well as large deflection and bending strain …

Residual stresses often arise after glass crystallization due to the residual glass and crystal
phases' thermal and elastic properties mismatch. Using the Positional Finite Element …

We propose a computational design pipeline for pneumatically-actuated soft robots
interacting with their environment through contact. We optimize the shape of the robot with a …

In this paper, finite axisymmetric inflation of an initially stretched flat circular hyperelastic
membrane has been analyzed. The membrane material has been assumed to be a …