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• Harnessing disorder to decouple extension and shear in kirigami metamaterials

  Haomin Yu, Hanxun Jin, Mingxuan Bi, Mohammad Jafari, Feng Helen Long, Michael J Greenberg, Farid Alisafaei, Guy Genin

  • Stochastic kirigami metamaterials
  • Inverse design
  • Bio-inspired materials
  • Surrogate modeling
  • Graph neural networks
  • metamaterials

  Downloads: 35 - Submitted 2026-07-13 - Posted 2026-07-13

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• Dendrite-growth resistance in solid state electrolytes

  Chenjie Gan, Siyuan Song, Zikang Yu, Brian Sheldon, Pradeep Guduru, Kyung-Suk Kim

  • Solid-state electrolyte
  • Joule-heating-induced temperature gradient
  • Thermal stress intensity factor
  • Electro-chemo-mechanical embrittlement/toughening
  • Threshold current density
  • Dendrite/crack growth resistance

  Downloads: 19 - Submitted 2026-07-10 - Posted 2026-07-11

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• Impedance-Guided Programmable Transmission of Localized Deformation in Modular Soft Metamaterials

  Xiaojia Shelly Zhang, Weiyun Xu, Daewon Hong, Zhi Zhao

  • mechanical metamaterials
  • Modular
  • Topology optimization
  • Impedance
  • Deformation transmission
  • Assembly

  Downloads: 12 - Submitted 2026-07-09 - Posted 2026-07-09

  • Manuscript

• Modeling damage and fracture in additively manufactured polymeric triply periodic minimal surface lattices

  Abhishek Gupta, Aditya Konale, Ke Ma, Keven Alkhoury, Pradeep Guduru, Yuri Bazilevs, Vikas Srivastava

  Downloads: 44 - Submitted 2026-07-06 - Posted 2026-07-06

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• A robust and versatile parallel FFT-based mechanical solver for general non-periodic and periodic boundary conditions

  Yaovi Armand Amouzou-Adoun, Lionel GELEBART, Cédric Flageul, Yushan Wang

  • Non-periodic boundary conditions
  • Discrete Trigonometric and Fourier transforms
  • Discrete Green operators
  • Small and Finite transformations
  • Crystal plasticity
  • Massively parallel simulations

  Downloads: 23 - Submitted 2026-07-06 - Posted 2026-07-06

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• Morphology-Property Interplay in Chemo-Mechanics of Ion-Intercalation Active Particles

  Rongyue Lin, Royal Ihuaenyi, Juner Zhu, Ruobing Bai

  Downloads: 25 - Submitted 2026-07-04 - Posted 2026-07-04

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• Spatial Variation of Stiffness and Edge Beam Participation in RC Box Culverts

  Syed Mujtaba Haider

  Downloads: 0 - Submitted 2026-07-04 - Posted 2026-07-04

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• Finite Element Modeling of the Structural Response of a Reinforced Concrete (RC) Box Culvert with Edge Beam and Skewness

  Syed Mujtaba Haider

  Downloads: 30 - Submitted 2026-07-02 - Posted 2026-07-02

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• Mechanistic understanding of sodium storage from operando stress measurements in hard-carbon thin-films

  Akshay Pakhare, Naba K. Karan, Pradeep R. Guduru

  • Hard carbon
  • Sodium-ion batteries
  • operando stress measurement
  • sodium-storage mechanism
  • thin film electrodes
  • mechanics of materials

  Downloads: 35 - Submitted 2026-07-02 - Posted 2026-07-02

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• The discrete origin of configurational forces

  Eliot Fried

  Downloads: 42 - Submitted 2026-07-02 - Posted 2026-07-02

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• A new perspective in linear Cauchy Elasticity: variational minimum principles for statics, dynamics, and heterogeneous materials

  Amit Acharya

  Downloads: 90 - Submitted 2026-06-23 - Posted 2026-06-23

  • dual_linear_elastodynamics.pdf

• Driven Odd Elasticity in Passive Mechanical Metamaterials

  Mohamad Rahimi, Harold S Park

  • Odd Elasticity Metamaterial non-Hermitian

  Downloads: 43 - Submitted 2026-06-22 - Posted 2026-06-22

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• Thermo-elastic properties of hydrated epoxy-graphene nanocomposites from ensemble-based molecular dynamics simulations

  Maxime Vassaux, Werner A. Müller, James L. Suter, Alexandros Anastasiou, Martin Simmons, David Tilbrook, Peter V. Coveney

  • mechanical behavior
  • hydration
  • molecular dynamics
  • epoxy resin
  • graphene

  Downloads: 39 - Submitted 2026-06-19 - Posted 2026-06-19

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• Conformal Mechanics of Serpentine Meshes for Millimeter-Scale Neural Probes

  Sagidolla Batay, Yulin Zhou, Priyan V. Pathirana, John P. Seymour, Raudel Avila

  • stretchable neural probes
  • serpentine interconnects
  • mesh electronics
  • conformal mechanics
  • finite element analysis

  Downloads: 74 - Submitted 2026-06-19 - Posted 2026-06-19

  • Batay_Manuscript_NeuralProbes

• First-Order Compatible-Strain Mixed Quadrilateral Finite Elements for $2$D Nonlinear Elasticity

  Mohsen Jahanshahi, Damiano Pasini, Arash Yavari

  Downloads: 33 - Submitted 2026-06-18 - Posted 2026-06-18

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• Why is the strength of an elastomeric polymer network so low?

  Shaswat Mohanty, Zhigang Suo, Jose Blanchet, Wei Cai

  Downloads: 73 - Submitted 2026-06-16 - Posted 2026-06-18 - Versions: 2

  • Preprint---published in npj Computational Materials

• Interpenetrating Gyroid Lattice - Foam Composites with Synergistically Enhanced Stiffness and Energy Absorption for Impact Mitigation

  Jizhe Cai, Bhanugoban Maheswaran, Emmanuel Dada, Hridyesh Tewani, Pavana Prabhakar, Ramathasan Thevamaran

  Downloads: 40 - Submitted 2026-06-16 - Posted 2026-06-16

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• Inward buckling of spiral layered structures subject to volumetric expansion and external constraint

  Xinran Shi, Juner Zhu

  • Archimedean spirals
  • layered structures
  • volumetric expansion
  • Rayleigh--Ritz method
  • buckling instability

  Downloads: 141 - Submitted 2026-06-15 - Posted 2026-06-15

  • Manuscript.pdf

• Crack-Parallel Tension Effects on Fracture of Soft Knitted Polymer Composites deduced from Gap Tests via Microplane Triads

  Xiaoxiao Ding, Yanzhao Niu, Yang Zhao, Hongshun Chen, Chanhyeong Bae, Anh T. Nguyen, Horacio D. Espinosa, Zdeněk P. Bažant, Jian Cao

  • fracture and damage
  • large strain
  • knitted fiber composites
  • silicone elastomers
  • microplane triad model
  • finite element analysis

  Downloads: 148 - Submitted 2026-06-12 - Posted 2026-06-12 - Versions: 2

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• A closed-form correction for three-point bend testing of functionally graded beams, with application to endovascular devices

  Charles Suskin, Juan Becerra-García, Yosef Granillo, Michael Qiu, Yuxuan Huang, Mohamed Zayed, Joshua Osbun, Guy Genin

  Downloads: 65 - Submitted 2026-06-12 - Posted 2026-06-12

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• Nonlinear Anisotropic Visco-Anelasticity

  Souhayl Sadik, Arash Yavari

  Downloads: 50 - Submitted 2026-06-10 - Posted 2026-06-10

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• Analysis of Stress Wave Interaction with a 180° Bend Junction Between Two Square Bars

  Salil Bavdekar, Joaquin S A Garcia, Amith A Cheenady, Andres Bernardo, Ghatu Subhash

  • wave mechanics
  • wave propagation
  • waveguide
  • transfer function
  • DIC

  Downloads: 44 - Submitted 2026-06-09 - Posted 2026-06-09

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• Harnessing Functional Gradients for Enhanced Shock Absorption in Foam Materials

  Bhanugoban Maheswaran, Komal Chawla, Ramathasan Thevamaran

  • Functionally graded materials
  • Dynamic compression
  • Shock mitigation
  • Carbon nanotube foams
  • Shock model

  Downloads: 57 - Submitted 2026-06-09 - Posted 2026-06-09

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• Competitive Hardening Dynamics in Viscoplastic Materials with Evolving Threshold Stress

  Yo-Lun Yang

  Downloads: 39 - Submitted 2026-05-14 - Posted 2026-06-07

  • Manuscript

• Universal deformations and universal residual stresses in incompressible isotropic Cauchy elasticity

  Arash Yavari

  Downloads: 51 - Submitted 2026-06-05 - Posted 2026-06-05

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