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• Influence of Biaxial Stress on Lithium Dendrite Nucleation and Growth in Solid Electrolytes

  Siyuan Song, Akshay Pakhare, Lucas Caretta, Brian Sheldon, kyung-Suk Kim, Pradeep Guduru

  Downloads: 25 - Submitted 2026-10-30 - Posted 2026-10-30

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• Coupling network synthesis and modeling for microscopic understanding of strength in entangled polymer networks

  Jinyue Dai, Xinyan Yang, Sinan Keten, Junsoo Kim

  • Strength
  • Polymer networks
  • Network model
  • Entanglements

  Downloads: 23 - Submitted 2026-10-28 - Posted 2026-10-28

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• Freeform Programmable Liquid Crystal Elastomers via Monolithic Integration of Co-Optimization and 4D-Printing Freeform Programmable Liquid Crystal Elastomers

  Yibo Wang, Asad Ahmed, Weiyun Xu, Weichen Li, Xiaojia Shelly Zhang

  Downloads: 58 - Submitted 2026-10-22 - Posted 2026-10-22

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• Complementary Cauchy Elasticity

  Arash Yavari

  Downloads: 69 - Submitted 2026-10-20 - Posted 2026-10-20

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• Elastic theory of ideal liquid crystal elastomers

  Ruobing Bai, Zumrat Usmanova

  • liquid crystal elastomers
  • neo-classical theory
  • soft elasticity
  • monodomain
  • polydomain

  Downloads: 192 - Submitted 2026-10-16 - Posted 2026-10-16

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• A local solution of Ericksen’s problem

  Jingbei Bai

  • Universal deformation
  • Incompressible isotropic elasticity
  • Ericksen problem

  Downloads: 276 - Submitted 2026-10-16 - Posted 2026-10-16

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• Continuum Limit of Nonlocal Electrostatics in Random Media

  Prashant Jha, Kaushik Dayal

  • Electrostatic energy
  • two-scale convergence
  • continuum limit
  • stationary and ergodic random media
  • lattice stationarity

  Downloads: 46 - Submitted 2026-10-15 - Posted 2026-10-15

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• Adapting neural operators for mechanics decisions under changing operating conditions

  Prashant Jha, Koffi Enakoutsa, Ian Galloway, Henry Anderson

  • neural operators
  • Adaptive neural operators
  • distribution shift
  • nonlinear finite-element mechanics
  • prediction-specific error estimation
  • mechanics-based decision making
  • hard-magnetic soft materials
  • computational twins

  Downloads: 55 - Submitted 2026-10-15 - Posted 2026-10-15

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• On the Mathematical Structure of Helical Shear in Anelastic Continua

  Souhayl Sadik, Giuseppe Saccomandi, Luigi Vergori

  Downloads: 45 - Submitted 2026-10-14 - Posted 2026-10-14

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• Tomographic observation and modelling of three-dimensional fibre waviness in prepreg draping

  Zahra Hooshmand-Ahoor, Takamitsu Suzuki, Benjamin Huang, Kevin Jose , Anthony Dennis, Benjamin Russell, Vikram Deshpande

  Downloads: 128 - Submitted 2026-10-05 - Posted 2026-10-05 - Versions: 2

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