Dr. Jikun Wang completed his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in May 2023.  His thesis was on “Time-dependent Damage of Soft Materials with Bond Breaking and Healing Kinetics.” Congratulations Jikun!  

Our paper “Determination of Material Parameters in Constitutive Models using Adaptive Neural Network Machine Learning ,” in JMPS is now available on-line at https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1hB7n_WmNpkpW 

Jikun Wang, Kunpeng Cui, Bangguo Zhu, Jian Ping Gong, Chung-Yuen Hui, Alan T. Zehnder, Load transfer between permanent and dynamic networks due to stress gradients in nonlinear viscoelastic hydrogels, Extreme Read More …

Bhaskar, M. Walth, R. H. Rand and A. T. Zehnder, “Bistability in Coupled Opto-Thermal Micro-Oscillators,” Journal of Microelectromechanical Systems, https://doi.org/10.1109/JMEMS.2022.3169430 . (2022) In this work we experimentally investigate the dynamics Read More …

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Experimental Techniques, 2020.  

Crack Propagation in a PVA Dual-Crosslink Hydrogel: Crack Tip Fields Measured using Digital Image Correlation, published in Mechanics of Materials, is now on-line: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1Zg-Xc7qwU6uo This is available to anyone up Read More …

Mincong Liu recently (June 2019) completed his Ph.D. on the mechanical behavior of hydrogels.  His work advanced the use of digital image correlation (DIC) for fracture in soft materials and Read More …

In recognition of distinguished contributions to the field of experimental mechanics, and service to that field through the Society, Professor Zehnder was recognized as a Fellow of the Society for Read More …

“Application of Digital Image Correlation (DIC) to the Measurement of Strain Concentration of a PVA Dual-Crosslink Hydrogel Under Large Deformation,” published online in Experimental Mechanics, (2019), http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11340-019-00520-4 “Crack tip stress Read More …