Abstract: Hydrogels are used in a variety of applications ranging from tissue engineering to soft robotics. They often undergo large deformation coupled with solvent diffusion, and structural integrity is important when they are ...

Abstract: A theoretical model of polyelectrolyte gels is presented to study continuous and discontinuous volume phase transitions induced by changing salt concentration in the external solution. Phase diagrams are constructed in ...

Abstract: A finite element analysis of quasistatic, steadystate crack growth in pseudoelastic shape memory alloys is carried out for plane strain, mode I loading. The crack is assumed to propagate at a critical level of the cracktip ...

Abstract: A finite element analysis of steadystate crack growth in pseudoelastic shape memory alloys under the assumption of adiabatic conditions is carried out for plane strain, mode I loading. The crack is assumed to propagate at ...

Abstract: Based on a linear poroelastic formulation, we present an asymptotic analysis of the transient crack-tip fields for stationary cracks in polymer gels under plane-strain conditions. A center crack model is studied in detail, ...

Abstract: Fracture of polymer gels is often time- and rate-dependent. Subject to a constant load, a gel specimen may fracture immediately or after a delay (time-dependent, delayed fracture). When a crack grows in a gel, the fracture ...