Ferroelectrics are widespread in technology, being used in electronics and communications,
medical diagnostics and industrial automation. However, extension of their operational …

Nearly three decades ago, the field of mechanics was cautioned of the obscure nature of
cavitation processes in soft materials [A. Gent, Cavitation in rubber: a cautionary tale …

Indentation is a simple and one of the oldest small-scale test methods for characterizing the
mechanical response of materials. Recently, there has been a growing interest in dynamic …

This paper presents a spherical cavity expansion method based on the self-similar field
considering dynamic hardening, which includes plastic strain, plastic strain rate, and …

In recent years, Spherical Cavity Expansion (SCE) theory has been extensively utilized to
model dynamic deformation processes related to indentation and penetration problems in …

Herein, we present a self-similar cavity expansion model that follows from the work of Cohen
and Durban (2013b) to analyze the dynamic indentation response of elasto-plastic porous …

Closed form analytical solutions for the dynamic expansion of a spherical void in a finite,
spherically symmetric, nonlinearly viscoelastic medium are presented. We account for finite …

Confined concrete has superior anti-penetration performance over unconfined concrete. A
finite dynamic spherical cavity-expansion approximation model with radially elastic …

Dynamic cavitation is known to be a typical failure mechanism in rubber-like solids. While
the mechanical behaviour of these materials is generally rate-dependent, the number of …

The concept of ballistically equivalent metals for ductile plate perforation has been defined
and demonstrated for five aluminium alloys. Heuristic derivation of a semi-empirical relation …