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• Making coupled-field Abaqus user elements simple

  Teng Zhang

  Downloads: 0 - Submitted 2026-07-29 - Posted 2026-07-29

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• Experimental and numerical spatio-temporal analysis of the Portevin–Le Chatelier dynamics in a Nickel based superalloy

  Samuel Forest

  Downloads: 0 - Submitted 2026-07-29 - Posted 2026-07-29

  • billon26jerky.pdf

• Constrained asymptotic crack-tip fields of a Mooney–Rivlin sheet in plane stress: a symplectic analysis

  Teng Zhang

  Downloads: 0 - Submitted 2026-07-25 - Posted 2026-07-25

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• Period doubling and quadrupling of wrinkles in film/substrate bilayers: a nonlinear symplectic analysis

  Teng Zhang

  Downloads: 0 - Submitted 2026-07-22 - Posted 2026-07-23

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• Constrained minimization problems and FFT-based solvers: application to local Dirichlet boundary conditions and contact mechanics

  Lionel GELEBART, Yaovi Armand Amouzou-Adoun

  Downloads: 15 - Submitted 2026-07-21 - Posted 2026-07-21

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• Energetics of Nucleation in Finitely Deformed, Phase-Transforming Soft Solids

  Mrityunjay Kothari

  Downloads: 20 - Submitted 2026-07-17 - Posted 2026-07-17

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• Bifurcation reordering programs snap-through symmetry in folded elastic ribbons

  Weicheng Huang

  • Elastic ribbon
  • Snap-through instability
  • Discrete simulation
  • Reduced-order toy model

  Downloads: 27 - Submitted 2026-07-16 - Posted 2026-07-17

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• Model-Informed Joint Material-Structural Optimization of Hard-Magnetic Soft Materials

  Ian Galloway, Prashant Jha

  • Hard-magnetic soft materials
  • topology optimization
  • constitutive model selection
  • structure-property relations
  • magneto-mechanical coupling
  • joint material-structural design

  Downloads: 15 - Submitted 2026-07-17 - Posted 2026-07-17

  • arXiv.2607.14397v1.pdf

• Modeling Stress-Enhanced Photo-Degradation in Amorphous Glassy Polymers

  Keven Alkhoury, Shawn Chester, Laurence Brassart

  • Constitutive behavior
  • Degradable polymers
  • Renewable polymers
  • Stress-enhanced photo-degradation
  • Stress-enhanced UV degradation

  Downloads: 19 - Submitted 2026-07-16 - Posted 2026-07-16

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• A non-local constitutive model for the Mullins effect in filled elastomers

  Keven Alkhoury

  • Mullins effect
  • Non-local
  • Finite element Method
  • Lage deformation

  Downloads: 32 - Submitted 2026-07-15 - Posted 2026-07-15

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