Disordered mechanical metamaterials

M Zaiser, S Zapperi - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
Mechanical metamaterials are a class of artificial materials whose geometry is engineered to
have peculiar mechanical properties or programmed responses that are difficult to find in …

[HTML][HTML] Networks behind the morphology and structural design of living systems

M Gosak, M Milojević, M Duh, K Skok, M Perc - Physics of Life Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Technological advances in imaging techniques and biometric data acquisition have enabled
us to apply methods of network science to study the morphology and structural design of …

Edge betweenness centrality as a failure predictor in network models of structurally disordered materials

M Pournajar, M Zaiser, P Moretti - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Network theoretical measures such as geodesic edge betweenness centrality (GEBC) have
been proposed as failure predictors in network models of load-driven materials failure. Edge …

A network model of transient polymers: exploring the micromechanics of nonlinear viscoelasticity

RJ Wagner, E Hobbs, FJ Vernerey - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Dynamic networks contain crosslinks that re-associate after disconnecting, imparting them
with viscoelastic properties. While continuum approaches have been developed to analyze …

DM net: A multiple nonlinear regression net for the inverse design of disordered metamaterials

R Wang, X Peng, X Wang, C Wu, X Liang, W Wu - Additive Manufacturing, 2024 - Elsevier
Mechanical metamaterials have attracted great attention because of their lightweight, high
strength, and multi-functional performances. They have also been used in aerospace …

A graph model to describe the network connectivity of trabecular plates and rods

M Walle, D Yeritsyan, M Abbasian… - … in Bioengineering and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction: The trabecular network is perceived as a collection of interconnected plate-(P)
and rod-like (R) elements. Previous research has highlighted how these elements and their …

[HTML][HTML] Fracture behavior of human cortical bone with high glycation content under dynamic loading

E Maghami, A Sadighi, AR Najafi - Journal of the mechanical behavior of …, 2024 - Elsevier
The present study simulates the fracture behavior of diabetic cortical bone with high levels of
advanced glycation end-products (AGEs) under dynamic loading. We consider that the …

Transient flow modeling in fractured media using graphs

S Srinivasan, D O'Malley, JD Hyman, S Karra… - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
We describe a method to simulate transient fluid flows in fractured media using an approach
based on graph theory. Our approach builds on past work where the graph-based approach …

Graphical models of dominant topologies of polymer-substrate adhesive-interfacial strength and toughness

X Wang, L Liao, X Wu, C Huang - Acta Mechanica Sinica, 2025 - Springer
It is a challenge to determine the dominant topological characteristics of mechanical
properties of adhesive interfaces. In this paper, we used graph theory and molecular …

From Brittle to Ductile: Symmetry Breaking in Strut-Based Architected Materials

SY Yu, S Lee, Z Zhang, Z Jin, GX Gu - ACS Materials Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Strut-based cellular structures have gained remarkable attention in recent years due to their
improved strength-to-weight ratio, energy absorption abilities, and heat transfer properties. A …