3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Strain-stiffening critical exponents of fiber networks under uniaxial deformation
Atharva Pandit, Fred C. MacKintosh, Abhinav Sharma
Disordered fiber networks exhibit a floppy to rigid mechanical phase transition as a function of connectivity. Sub-isostatically connected networks can undergo this transition via…
cond-mat.soft2024
Nonlinear Poisson effect in affine semiflexible polymer networks
Jordan L. Shivers, Fred C. MacKintosh
Stretching an elastic material along one axis typically induces contraction along the transverse axes, a phenomenon known as the Poisson effect. From these strains, one can compute…
cond-mat.soft2016
Elasticity of fibrous networks under axial prestress
Mahsa Vahabi, Abhinav Sharma, Albert James Licup +4
We present theoretical and experimental studies of the elastic response of fibrous networks subjected to uniaxial strain. Uniaxial compression or extension is applied to extracellu…