Elasticity and Material Modeling

Automated model discovery for textile structures:The unique mechanical signature of warp knitted fabrics

This paper uses constitutive neural networks to automatically discover anisotropic mechanical models for warp knitted fabrics, finding that models with three microstructural directions outperform classical orthotropic models.

Comparing continuum and direct fiber models of soft tissues.An ocular biomechanics example reveals that continuum models may artificially disrupt the strains at both the tissue and fiber levels

This paper compares continuum and fiber models of soft tissues using ocular biomechanics, finding that fiber models better capture strain patterns and fiber-level deformations.

Isolating Poroelastic and Viscoelastic Mechanisms of Soft Tissues and Hydrogels Through Sequential Microscale Indentation Testing: New Applications of Indentation Theory for Microscale Characterization

This paper introduces a semi-analytical model to distinguish poroelastic and viscoelastic properties in soft tissues and hydrogels using sequential microscale indentation testing.

The role of thickness inhomogeneities in hierarchical cortical folding

This study uses simulations to show that thickness inhomogeneities in the brain's cortex lead to complex folding patterns, resembling higher-order brain structures.

An inverse modelling study on the local volume changes during early growth of the fetal human brain

The paper uses MRI data and a nonlinear continuum mechanics model to infer the growth deformation gradient field of the fetal human brain, showing in-plane cortical expansion dominates early growth.