166 citations
Counting papers with at most 25 authors, so collaboration author lists do not stand in for the people here.
- ETH ZurichCH110 papers
- Universidade Federal do CearáBR46 papers
- Istituto per le Applicazioni del Calcolo Mauro PiconeIT20 papers
- Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFR10 papers
- Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional10 papers
- University of LisbonPT8 papers
- University of StuttgartDE7 papers
- Harvard UniversityUS6 papers
- Physique et Mécanique des Milieux HétérogènesFR6 papers
- Cornell UniversityUS5 papers
- Institute for Biomedical EngineeringCH5 papers
- University of ZurichCH5 papers
111 papers
Beam-like topologically interlocked structures with hierarchical interlocking
Ioannis Koureas, Mohit Pundir, Shai Feldfogel +1
Topologically interlocked materials and structures, which are assemblies of unbonded interlocking building blocks, are promising concepts for versatile structural applications. The…
Nucleation of frictional slip: A yielding or a fracture process?
Miguel Castellano, Flavio Lorez, David Kammer
The onset of frictional sliding between contacting bodies under shear load is nucleated by the quasi-static growth of localized slip patches. After reaching a certain critical size…
Sustainably Grown: The Underdog Robots of the Future
Stoyan K. Smoukov
It is hard to imagine with the progress in robotics that current approaches are lacking somewhere, yet they will not be applicable to the majority of robots in the near future. We…
Earthquake Breakdown Energy Scaling Despite Constant Fracture Energy
Chun-Yu Ke, Gregory C. McLaskey, David S. Kammer
In the quest to determine fault weakening processes that govern earthquake mechanics, it is common to infer the earthquake breakdown energy from seismological measurements. Breakdo…
Alkali-silica reaction products and cracks: X-ray micro-tomography-based analysis of their spatial-temporal evolution at a mesoscale
Mahdieh Shakoorioskooie, Michele Griffa, Andreas Leemann +2
In this study, we propose a laboratory-scale methodology, based on X-ray micro-tomography and caesium (Cs) as a contrast agent, to advance the understanding of cracking due to alka…
Nucleation of frictional sliding by coalescence of microslip
Styfen Schär, Gabriele Albertini, David S. Kammer
The onset of frictional motion is mediated by the dynamic propagation of a rupture front, analogous to a shear crack. The rupture front nucleates quasi-statically in a localized re…
Unstable cracks trigger asymptotic rupture modes in bimaterial friction
H. Shlomai, D. S. Kammer, M. Adda-Bedia +2
The rupture of the interface joining two materials under frictional contact controls their macroscopic sliding. Interface rupture dynamics depend markedly on the mechanical propert…
Stochastic Properties of Static Friction
Gabriele Albertini, Simon Karrer, Mircea D. Grigoriu +1
The onset of frictional motion is mediated by rupture-like slip fronts, which nucleate locally and propagate eventually along the entire interface causing global sliding. The stati…
Effective toughness of heterogeneous materials with rate-dependent fracture energy
Gabriele Albertini, Mathias Lebihain, François Hild +2
We investigate dynamic fracture of heterogeneous materials experimentally by measuring displacement fields as a rupture propagates through a periodic array of obstacles of controll…
Active Interaction Force Control for Contact-Based Inspection with a Fully Actuated Aerial Vehicle
Karen Bodie, Maximilian Brunner, Michael Pantic +5
This paper presents and validates active interaction force control and planning for fully actuated and omnidirectional aerial manipulation platforms, with the goal of aerial contac…
Dynamic fields at the tip of sub-Rayleigh and supershear frictional rupture fronts
Ilya Svetlizky, Gabriele Albertini, Gil Cohen +2
The onset of frictional motion at the interface between two distinct bodies in contact is characterized by the propagation of dynamic rupture fronts. We combine friction experiment…
Sequential disruption of the shortest path in critical percolation
Oliver Gschwend, Hans J. Herrmann
We investigate the effect of sequentiallydisrupting the shortest path of percolation clusters at criticality by comparing it with the shortest alternative path. We measure the diff…
An Omnidirectional Aerial Manipulation Platform for Contact-Based Inspection
Karen Bodie, Maximilian Brunner, Michael Pantic +5
This paper presents an omnidirectional aerial manipulation platform for robust and responsive interaction with unstructured environments, toward the goal of contact-based inspectio…
Collapse of orthotropic spherical shells
Gautam Munglani, Falk K. Wittel, Roman Vetter +2
We report on the buckling and subsequent collapse of orthotropic elastic spherical shells under volume and pressure control. Going far beyond what is known for isotropic shells, a…
Curvature-induced quantum spin-Hall effect on a Möbius strip
Kyriakos Flouris, Miller Mendoza Jimenez, Hans J. Herrmann
The quantum Hall effect has been predicted and discovered in various condensed-matter systems. A promising quantum material for such topological effects is graphene. We report the…
A universal approach for drainage basins
Erneson A. Oliveira, Rilder S. Pires, Rubens S. Oliveira +3
Drainage basins are essential to Geohydrology and Biodiversity. Defining those regions in a simple, robust and efficient way is a constant challenge in Earth Science. Here, we intr…
Landau levels in wrinkled and rippled graphene sheets
Kyriakos Flouris, Miller Mendoza, Hans J. Herrmann
We study the discrete energy spectrum of curved graphene sheets in the presence of a magnetic field. The shifting of the Landau levels is determined for complex and realistic geome…
Confining massless Dirac particles in two-dimensional curved space
Kyriakos Flouris, Miller Mendoza Jimenez, Jens-Daniel Debus +1
Dirac particles have been notoriously difficult to confine. Implementing a curved space Dirac equation solver based on the quantum Lattice Boltzmann method, we show that curvature…
Perturbing the Shortest Path on a Critical Directed Square Lattice
Fabian Hillebrand, Mirko Luković, Hans J. Herrmann
We investigate the behaviour of the shortest path on a directed two-dimensional square lattice for bond percolation at the critical probability . We observe that flipping an…
Clogging at Pore Scale and Pressure Induced Erosion
Robin Jäger, Miller Mendoza, Hans J. Herrmann
Introducing a model to study deposition and erosion of single particles at microscopic scale, we investigate the clogging and erosive processes in a pore. The particle diameter, co…
Congestion fronts of diffusing particles
Bastian Burger, Hans J Herrmann
We study two new models of two particle species invading a surface from opposite sides. Collisions of particles of different species lead to the formation of congestion fronts. One…
Numerical evidence of electron hydrodynamic whirlpools in graphene samples
A. Gabbana, M. Mendoza, S. Succi +1
We present an extension of recent relativistic Lattice Boltzmann methods based on Gaussian quadratures for the study of fluids in (2+1) dimensions. The new method is applied to the…
Fluid structure interaction with curved space lattice Boltzmann
Kyriakos Flouris, Miller Mendoza Jimenez, Gautam Munglani +3
We present a novel method for fluid structure interaction (FSI) simulations where an original 2nd-order curved space lattice Boltzmann fluid solver (LBM) is coupled to a finite ele…
Shifted Landau levels in curved graphene sheets
Jens-Daniel Debus, Miller Mendoza, Hans Jürgen Herrmann
We study the Landau levels in curved graphene sheets by measuring the discrete energy spectrum in the presence of a magnetic field. We observe that in rippled graphene sheets, the…