3 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Active chemo-mechanical solitons
Lev Truskinovsky, Giuseppe Zurlo
In many biological systems localized mechanical information is transmitted by mechanically neutral chemical signals. Typical examples include contraction waves in acto-myosin corte…
cond-mat.soft2025
Micro-displacement tensor
Giuseppe Zurlo, Lev Truskinovsky
We propose an extended kinematics of nominally elastic continuum solids allowing one to describe their mechanical interaction with micro-scale loading devices. The main new ingredi…
cond-mat.soft2025
Programmable wrinkling for functionally-graded auxetic circular membranes
Sairam Pamulaparthi Venkata, Valentina Balbi, Michel Destradea +2
Materials with negative Poisson's ratio, also known as auxetic materials, display exotic properties such as expansion in all directions under uni-axial tension. For their unique pr…