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The elastic stored energy of initially strained, or stressed, materials: restrictions and third-order expansions
Artur L. Gower, Tom Shearer, Pasquale Ciarletta +1
A large variety of materials, widely encountered both in engineering applications and in the biological realm, are characterised by a non-vanishing internal stress distribution, ev…
Tensor decomposition for modified quasi-linear viscoelastic models: towards a fully nonlinear theory
Valentina Balbi, Tom Shearer, William J Parnell
We discuss the decomposition of the tensorial relaxation function for isotropic and transversely isotropic Modified Quasi-Linear Viscoelastic models. We show how to formulate the c…
Bayesian inference on a microstructural, hyperelastic model of tendon deformation
James Haughton, Simon L. Cotter, William J. Parnell +1
Microstructural models of soft tissue deformation are important in applications including artificial tissue design and surgical planning. The basis of these models, and their advan…
Silence is bliss in a Platonic relationship
Cheuk-Him Yeung, Tom Shearer, William J Parnell
We describe an effective active cloaking strategy for the scalar Helmholtz equation in three dimensions where multipole active sources are located at the vertices of the Platonic s…
A microstructural model of tendon failure
James Gregory, Tom Shearer, Andrew L. Hazel
Collagen fibrils are the most important structural component of tendons. Their crimped structure and parallel arrangement within the tendon lead to a distinctive non-linear stress-…
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…
A new restriction for initially stressed elastic solids
Artur Lewis Gower, Tom Shearer, Pasquale Ciarletta
We introduce a fundamental restriction on the strain energy function and stress tensor for initially stressed elastic solids. The restriction applies to strain energy functions …
Maths in Medicine: How to Survive a Science Fair
Philip Pearce, Tom Shearer
When talking to secondary school students, first impressions are crucial. Accidentally say something that sounds boring and you'll lose them in seconds. A physical demonstration ca…
Modelling afferent nerve responses to bladder filling
Maryam Argungu, Saziye Bayram, Bindi Brook +9
A sensation of fullness in the bladder is a regular experience, yet the mechanisms that act to generate this sensation remain poorly understood. This is an important issue because…
A new strain energy function for the hyperelastic modelling of ligaments and tendons based on fascicle microstructure
Tom Shearer
A new strain energy function for the hyperelastic modelling of ligaments and tendons based on the geometrical arrangement of their fibrils is derived. The distribution of the crimp…
A new strain energy function for modelling ligaments and tendons whose fascicles have a helical arrangement of fibrils
Tom Shearer
A new strain energy function for the hyperelastic modelling of ligaments and tendons whose fascicles have a helical arrangement of fibrils is derived. The stress-strain response of…
Employing pre-stress to generate finite cloaks for antiplane elastic waves
William J. Parnell, Andrew N. Norris, Tom Shearer
It is shown that nonlinear elastic pre-stress of neo-Hookean hyperelastic materials can be used as a mechanism to generate finite cloaks and thus render objects near-invisible to i…