Abstract: Wrinkling of thin films resting on compliant substrates has emerged as a facile means to create wellordered surface patterns. In this paper, both theoretical analysis and numerical simulations are presented to study the ...

Abstract: Determining the mechanical properties of soft matter across different length scales is of great importance in understanding the deformation behavior of compliant materials under various stimuli. A pipette aspiration test ...

Abstract: An efficient numerical method is developed to analyze the mechanical responses of tensegrity structures subjected to various actuations that lead to large and highly nonlinear (e.g., hardening or softening) deformations. ...

Abstract: In the present study, turbulent flow of a Cu-water nanofluid through a porous cavity is investigated using a numerical method. Two rotating cylinders with different temperatures are placed inside the porous enclosure to ...

Abstract: Accelerating the dewatering of oil sands tailings is a crucial challenge to the oil sands industry. Fresh tailings (15–2% by weight solids) and mature tailings (3–35% by weight solids) dewater slowly over a period of decades ...

Abstract: Young loess deposits are the most well-known collapsible soils because of their small unit masses, high void ratios, and open metastable structures. Properly assessing the collapse of loess sites covered by very thick ...