Soft polymers constitute a broad class of materials with applications spanning biomedical systems, soft robotics, and impact mitigation. The mechanical properties of these polymers vary …
The past decades have witnessed an increasing demand for characterizing mechanical properties of materials at small scales due to the miniaturization of devices. While tremendous …
This thesis presents the applications of phase field modeling in fracture analysis. In this method, a diffusive crack zone controlled by a scalar auxiliary variable …
