Soft Materials

Pure shear sample with single (a) and double edge cracks (b)

    Pure shear sample
  1. Bangguo Zhu, Jikun Wang, Alan T Zehnder, and Chung-Yuen Hui, “Energy release rate of a mode-I crack in pure shear specimens subjected to large deformation,” International Journal of Fracture, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10704-023-00751-6 (2023).
  2. Jikun Wang, Bangguo Zhu, Chung-Yuen Hui, Alan T Zehnder, “Delayed fracture caused by time-dependent damage in PDMS,” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 105459 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2023.105459
  3. Jikun Wang, Bangguo Zhu, Chung-Yuen Hui, Alan T Zehnder, “Determination of material parameters in constitutive models using adaptive neural network machine learning,” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 177, 105324 (2023) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2023.105324
  4. 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 Mechanics Letters, 58, 101928, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2022.101928 (2023).
  5. Chung-Yuen Hui, Fan Cui, Alan Zehnder and Franck J. Vernerey, “Physically motivated models of polymer networks with dynamic cross-links: comparative study and future outlook,” R. Soc. A.4772021060820210608, http://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2021.0608 (2021)
  6. Fan Cui, Jikun Wang, Alan Zehnder, Chung-Yuen Hui, ” Effect of Drying on the Viscoelastic Response of a Dual-crosslinked PVA Hydrogel,”  Mechanics of Materials, 160, September 2021, 103984 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmat.2021.103984 (2021).
  7. Jikun Wang, Tianjiao Lia, Fan Cui, Chung-Yuen Hui, Jingjie Yeo, Alan T. Zehnder, ” Metamodeling of Constitutive Model Using Gaussian Process Machine Learning,” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 154, 104532, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2021.104532 (2021).
  8. Sairam Venkata Pamulaparthi, Kunpeng Cui, Jingyi Guo, Alan Zehnder, Jian Ping Gong and Chung-Yuen Hui, ” Constitutive modeling of strain-dependent bond breaking and healing kinetics of chemical Polyampholyte (PA) gel,” Soft Matter, 17, 4161-4169 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1039/D1SM00110H
  9. Sairam Venkata Pamulaparthi, Kunpeng Cui, Jingyi Guo, Alan Zehnder, Jian Ping Gong and Chung-Yuen Hui, “Constitutive modeling of bond breaking and healing kinetics of physical polyampholyte (PA) gel,” Extreme Mechanics Letters, 43, 101184, (2021). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2021.101184
  10. Mincong Liu, Jingyi Guo, Zhilong Li, Chung-Yuen Hui and Alan T. Zehnder, ” Crack Propagation in a PVA Dual-Crosslink Hydrogel: Crack Tip Fields Measured using Digital Image Correlation,” published on-line, Mechanics of Materials, (2019). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmat.2019.103158
  11. Mincong Liu, Jingyi Guo, Chung-Yuen Hui, and Alan Zehnder, “Crack Tip Stress Based, Kinetic Fracture Model of a PVA Dual-Crosslink Hydrogel,” published on-line, Extreme Mechanics Letters, (2019), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2019.100457.
  12. Mincong Liu, Jingyi Guo, Chung-Yuen Hui, and Alan Zehnder,” Application of Digital Image Correlation (DIC) to the Measurement of Large Deformations in a PVA, Dual-Crosslink Hydrogel,” published on-line Experimental Mechanics, (2019); https://rdcu.be/bCVeR .
  13. Mincong Liu, Jingyi Guo, Chung-Yuen Hui, Costantino Creton, Tetsuhara Narita, and Alan Zehnder, “Time-Temperature Equivalence in a PVA Dual Cross-Link Self-Healing Hydrogel,” Journal of Rheology 62, 991 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1122/1.5029466 .
  14. Jingyi Guo, Mincong Liu, Alan T. Zehnder, Jingwen Zhao, Tetsuhara Narita, Costantino Creton, and Chung-Yuen Hui, “Fracture mechanics of a self-healing hydrogel with covalent and physical cross-links: A numerical study,” Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Vol 120, pp. 79-95, (2018),  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2018.03.009.

    Strain field in hydrogel measured by DIC