The study of nonlinear elasticity and viscoelasticity occupies a pivotal role in continuum mechanics, providing essential frameworks to describe materials undergoing large deformations and ...

We present a constitutive model capturing some of the experimentally observed features of soft biological tissues: nonlinear viscoelasticity, nonlinear elastic anisotropy, and nonlinear viscous ...

This course covers the fundamentals of continuum mechanics and constitutive modeling relevant for soft biological tissues. Constitutive models covered include nonlinear elasticity and viscoelasticity.

A research group from the University of Osaka, ZEN University, and the University of Tokyo has mathematically uncovered the mechanism that causes crack tips to sharpen during the rapid fracture of ...

Polybutadiene is known to be a high performing material polymerized by lithium initiator or based on Ni, Co, Ti or Nd organometallic complexes. For what is concerning the widely used Nd-BR, despite ...

Within the framework of linear viscoelasticity a two-parameter family of relaxation functions are exhibited which allow nonuniqueness of the infinitesimal strain, for a given stress, in the space of ...