Abstract: The equilibrium equations for a fluid-saturated, porous elastic solid are obtained by a variational method. The total energy of the body is assumed to be the sum of that of the fluid and ...

Abstract: We employ Coulomb friction and both tangential and normal restitution in a model for a collision between a homogeneous sphere and a flat wall. We calculate the impulse and change in kinetic ...

Abstract: We derive balance laws and constitutive relations for plane flows of a dense, binary mixture of smooth, nearly elastic, circular disks. The disks may differ in size and mass and in the ...

Abstract: We determine the pressure distribution behind a soft contact lens that is necessary to keep the lens in conformity with an axisymmetric substrate. The substrate consists of two regions: a ...

Abstract: A theoretical model is proposed to describe the mechanical behavior of mammalian tendon. The tendon is modeled as an incompressible fiber-reinforced composite with continuously distributed inextensible ...

Abstract: We employ balance laws and constitutive relations for rapid, dense, plane flows of identical circular disks together with boundary conditions at a bumpy wall to analyse steady shearing flows ...