Abstract: We present a methodology for identifying constitutive responses of crushable, linearsoftening materials that would reduce the severity of brain injury caused by head impact in a typical automobile or sports collision. It ...

Abstract: Subsidence of implants into bone is a major source of morbidity. The underlying mechanics of the phenomenon are not clear, but are likely related to interactions between contact stresses and the underlying porous trabecular ...

Abstract: Recent experiments in which arrays of compliant fibrils are compressed axially against a rigid surface and then released have shown that there is loaddisplacement hysteresis during this process, accompanied by buckling and ...

Abstract: This paper provides comprehensive solutions for the loaddeflection response of an elastic beam with tensile residual stresses subjected to pointloading. A highly accurate explicit approximation is derived from the exact ...