Abstract: Diffusion through soft polymer filters is a nonlinear process: the increase of the pressure on the filtrating liquid does not trigger the proportional increase of the flux through the filter. ...

Abstract: Failure of a single-atomic-layer graphene sheet is analyzed in plane tension under the varying biaxiality condition. The analysis is based on the combined use of continuum and molecular mechanics ...

Abstract: Permittivity of electroactive elastomers alters during deformation. The influence of the permittivity alterations on the electrostriction of elastomers is studied in the present work. Particularly, ...

Abstract: Stability problem of bearing pin-jointed assemblies, in which the number of equilibrium equations is greater than the equilibrium matrix rank (underconstrained structures), is investigated. Local ...

Abstract: The virtual internal bond (VIB) method was developed for the numerical simulation of fracture processes. In contrast to the traditional approach of fracture mechanics where stress analysis is ...

Abstract: The femoral head deteriorates in osteonecrosis. As a consequence of that, the cortical shell of the femoral head can buckle into the cancellous bone supporting it. In order to examine the ...