Integrated photoelasticity in a soft material: phase retardation, azimuthal angle, and stress-optic coefficient

Y Yokoyama, BR Mitchell, A Nassiri, BL Kinsey… - Optics and Lasers in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Integrated photoelasticity is investigated for a soft material subjected to a three-dimensional
stress state with large deformation. Our measurement target is designed based on the …

Tailoring the sensitivity of microcantilevers to monitor the mass of single adherent living cells

I Incaviglia, S Herzog, G Fläschner, N Strohmeyer… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Microcantilevers are widely employed as mass sensors for biological samples, from single
molecules to single cells. However, the accurate mass quantification of living adherent cells …

[HTML][HTML] High-speed photoelastic tomography for axisymmetric stress fields in a soft material: temporal evolution of all stress components

Y Yokoyama, S Ichihara, Y Tagawa - Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
This study presents a novel approach for reconstructing all stress components of the
dynamic axisymmetric fields of a soft material using photoelastic tomography (PT) and a …

Erosion characteristics of water droplet machining

BR Mitchell, YP Korkolis, BL Kinsey - Journal of Materials Processing …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Water Droplet Machining (WDM) is a new manufacturing process, which uses a
series of high-velocity, pure-water droplets to impact and erode solid workpieces, for the …

Unified Eulerian method for fluid-immersed self-and multi-body solid contact

T Lara, K Kamrin - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2025 - Elsevier
We introduce a general simulation approach to model fluid-submerged solid contact of
highly deformable objects within the Eulerian Incompressible Reference Map Technique …

Model for the onset of plasticity and hardness in bulk metallic glasses investigated by nanoindentation with a spherical indenter

K Tao, X He, H Lu, Z Zhang, Y Yang, E Pineda… - International Journal of …, 2025 - Elsevier
Despite extensive research over the past three decades into how indentation depth affects
the hardness (H) of both crystalline and non-crystalline materials, a mechanistic …

Two-dimensional strain rate imaging study using a polarization camera and birefringent aqueous cellulose nanocrystal suspensions

C Lane, F Baumann, D Rode, T Rösgen - Experiments in Fluids, 2024 - Springer
The birefringence response of aqueous cellulose nanocrystal (CNC) suspensions in a two-
dimensional laminar flow is measured and studied. The suspensions have CNC …

High-resolution measurement of contact stresses and friction in indentation and machining by full-field photoelasticity

JT Mathews, H Chawla, D Sagapuram - Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
An experimental study has been made of the sliding plastic contact in wedge indentation
and machining of ductile metals. The use of full-field photoelasticity has allowed direct …

Depth-resolved stress field measurement of multilayered system using swept-source polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography

X Zhang, J Chen, C Sun - Optics and Lasers in Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Non-destructive, layer-resolved stress field measurements of multilayered systems are
essential for structural optimization, mechanical property induction and product inspection …

Force and pose control of a hemispherical ultrasonic probe in contact with viscoelastic gelatine

L Facundo-Flores, A Baltazar, C Treesatayapun - Meccanica, 2024 - Springer
Ultrasound probes are widely employed for internal sonification, to detect anomalies and
assess mechanical properties. Achieving precise contact and orientation control is crucial for …