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The mechanics of human brain organoids
Valentina Balbi, Michel Destrade, Alain Goriely
Organoids are prototypes of human organs derived from cultured human stem cells. They provide a reliable and accurate experimental model to study the physical mechanisms underlying…
Poynting effect of brain matter in torsion
Valentina Balbi, Antonia Trotta, Michel Destrade +1
We investigate experimentally and model theoretically the mechanical behaviour of brain matter in torsion. Using a strain-controlled rheometer we perform torsion tests on fresh por…
Fine tuning the electro-mechanical response of dielectric elastomers
Giuseppe Zurlo, Michel Destrade, Tongqing Lu
We propose a protocol to model accurately the electromechanical behavior of dielectric elastomer membranes using experimental data of stress-stretch and voltage-stretch tests. We s…
Finite bending and pattern evolution of the associated instability for a dielectric elastomer slab
Yipin Su, Bin Wu, Weiqiu Chen +1
We investigate the finite bending and the associated bending instability of an incompressible dielectric slab subject to a combination of applied voltage and axial compression, usi…
Wrinkles and creases in the bending, unbending and eversion of soft sectors
Taisiya Sigaeva, Robert Mangan, Luigi Vergori +2
We study what is clearly one of the most common modes of deformation found in nature, science and engineering, namely the large elastic bending of curved structures, as well as its…
A modified formulation of quasi-linear viscoelasticity for transversely isotropic materials under finite deformation
Valentina Balbi, Tom Shearer, William J Parnell
The theory of quasi-linear viscoelasticity (QLV) is modified and developed for transversely isotropic (TI) materials under finite deformation. For the first time, distinct relaxati…
Wrinkles in soft dielectric plates
Yipin Su, Hannah Conroy Broderick, Weiqiu Chen +1
We show that a smooth giant voltage actuation of soft dielectric plates is not easily obtained in practice. In principle one can exploit, through pre-deformation, the snap-through…