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Cooperative melting in double-stranded peptide chains through local mechanical interactions
Luca Bellino, Giuseppe Florio, Alain Goriely +1
Under an external field a double-stranded peptide chain can separate in a fragile or ductile transition. It is usually believed that these two regimes are driven either by chemical…
Instabilities in liquid crystal elastomers
L. Angela Mihai, Alain Goriely
Stability is an important and fruitful avenue of research for liquid crystal elastomers. At constant temperature, upon stretching, the homogeneous state of a nematic body becomes u…
A plate theory for nematic liquid crystalline solids
L. Angela Mihai, Alain Goriely
We derive a Föppl-von Kármán-type constitutive model for solid liquid crystalline plates where the nematic director may or may not rotate freely relative to the elastic network. To…
Likely striping in stochastic nematic elastomers
L. Angela Mihai, Alain Goriely
For monodomain nematic elastomers, we construct generalised elastic-nematic constitutive models combining purely elastic and neoclassical-type strain-energy densities. Inspired by…
Dynamic buckling of an inextensible elastic ring: Linear and nonlinear analyses
Ousmane Kodio, Alain Goriely, Dominic Vella
Slender elastic objects such as a column tend to buckle under loads. While static buckling is well understood as a bifurcation problem, the evolution of shapes during dynamic buckl…
Dynamic buckling of elastic rings in a soap film
Finn Box, Ousmane Kodio, Doireann O'Kiely +3
Dynamic buckling may occur when a load is rapidly applied to, or removed from, an elastic object at rest. In contrast to its static counterpart, dynamic buckling offers a wide rang…