no code implementations • 4 Dec 2020 • Harold Berjamin, Michel Destrade
In soft elastic solids, directional shear waves are in general governed by coupled nonlinear KZK-type equations for the two transverse velocity components, when both quadratic nonlinearity and cubic nonlinearity are taken into account.
Soft Condensed Matter 74B20, 74H15
no code implementations • 3 Dec 2020 • Harold Berjamin, Michel Destrade, William J. Parnell
Originating in the field of biomechanics, Fung's model of quasi-linear viscoelasticity (QLV) is one of the most popular constitutive theories employed to compute the time-dependent relationship between stress and deformation in soft solids.
Soft Condensed Matter 74D10
no code implementations • 31 Aug 2020 • Ilaria Cinelli, Michel Destrade, Peter McHugh, Antonia Trotta, Michael Gilchrist, Maeve Duffy
The aim was to investigate mechanical and functional failure of diffuse axonal injury (DAI) in nerve bundles following frontal head impacts, by finite element simulations.
