This work reviews state of the art representative volume element (RVE) generation
techniques for heterogeneous materials. To this end, we present a systematic classification …

Paper is a material known to everybody. It has a network structure consisting of wood fibres
that can be mimicked by cooking a portion of spaghetti and pouring it on a plate, to form a …

The physics of liquids in porous media gives rise to many interesting phenomena, including
imbibition where a viscous fluid displaces a less viscous one. Here we discuss the …

Refining (ie, mechanical beating of pulp) is a common procedure that is used in paper-
making to improve the mechanical properties of the final product. The improvements caused …

We report the results of essentially ab initio simulations of creeping flow through large three-
dimensional random fiber webs that closely resemble fibrous sheets such as paper and …

A finite element model for 3D random fiber networks was constructed to simulate
deformation and failure behavior of networks with dynamic bonding/debonding properties …

We developed a multichannel wireless quartz-crystal-microbalance (QCM) biosensor for
mechanically studying the on-surface aggregation reaction of α-synuclein (α-syn). We find a …

In nature, many insects have evolved sclerotic cuticles to shelter their soft bodies, which are
considered as “body armor”. For beetles, the epidermis is composed of cross-linked …

Realistic lattice-Boltzmann simulations often require large amounts of computational
resources and are therefore executed on parallel systems. Generally, parallelization is …

Fiber tufts were modeled as random fibrous materials based on the statistical orientations of
the observed fibers. The tufts with different fiber properties were analyzed experimentally …