4 papers
Programming strain-stiffening in soft composites via structural memory near jamming
Yiqiu Zhao, Deng Pan, Yiming Pang +6
Soft composite solids, comprising discrete inclusions embedded within a compliant matrix, are emerging candidates for engineering synthetic tissues and soft robotic materials. Curr…
Elasticity-Controlled Jamming Criticality in Soft Composite Solids
Yiqiu Zhao, Haitao Hu, Yulu Huang +6
Soft composite solids are made of inclusions dispersed within soft matrices. They are ubiquitous in nature and form the basis of many biological tissues. In the field of materials…
Non-monotonic Rheology and Stress Heterogeneity in confined Granular suspensions
Haitao Hu, Yiqiu Zhao, Weiwei Zhao +2
We systematically investigated the impact of boundary confinement on the shear-thickening rheology of dense granular suspensions. Under highly confined conditions, dense suspension…
Observation of strain-rate softening behavior in jammed granular media
Mingchao Liu, Weining Mao, Yiqiu Zhao +4
The strain-rate sensitivity of confined granular materials has been widely explored, with most findings exhibiting rate-strengthening behaviors. This study, however, reveals a dist…