Negative stiffness mechanical metamaterial possesses many interesting properties but fairly
low strength. Introducing filler appears to be an effective strategy to enhance the cellular …

Shell buckling is central in many biological structures and advanced functional materials,
even if, traditionally, this elastic instability has been regarded as a catastrophic phenomenon …

Collapse of lipidic ultrasound contrast agents under high-frequency compressive load has
been historically interpreted by the vanishing of surface tension. By contrast, buckling of …

ABSTRACT The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which has emerged as a Covid-19 pandemic, has had
the most significant impact on people's health, economy, and lifestyle around the world …

Viscoelastic spherical shells exhibit a wide range of time/rate-dependent buckling behaviors
when subjected to pressure. For certain loadings, buckling can even occur after a significant …

Rapid movement is rare in the plant kingdom, but a prerequisite for ballistic seed dispersal.
A particularly dramatic example of rapid motion in plants is the squirting cucumber …

Localized deformation and randomly shaped imperfections are salient features of buckling-
type instabilities in thin-walled load-bearing structures. However, it is generally agreed that …

The axial buckling capacity of a thin cylindrical shell depends on the shape and the size of
the imperfections that are present in it. Therefore, the prediction of the shells buckling …

The buckling of spherical shells is plagued by a strong sensitivity to imperfections.
Traditionally, imperfect shells tend to be characterized empirically by the knockdown factor …

Geometric imperfections are understood to play an essential part in the buckling of a thin
shell, but how multiple defects interact to control the onset of failure remains unclear. Here …