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Traction force reconstruction assessment on real three-dimensional matrices and cellular morphologies
(Elsevier, 2023-05-01)
Traction force microscopy (TFM) allows to estimate tractions on the surface of cells when they mechanically interact with hydrogel substrates that mimic the extracellular matrix (ECM). The field of mechanobiology has a ...
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A phase-field fracture model for fatigue using locking-free solid shell finite elements: Analysis for homogeneous materials and layered composites
(Elsevier, 2023-10)
A computational framework to model fatigue fracture in structures based on the phase-field method and the solid-shell concept is herein presented. With the aim of achieving a locking free solid-shell finite element formulation ...
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A multifield coupled thermo-chemo-mechanical theory for the reaction-diffusion modeling in photovoltaics
(Wiley, 2023-03)
A comprehensive coupled thermo-chemo-mechanical modeling framework is proposed in this work to study the reaction-diffusion phenomena taking place inside photovoltaics (PV). When exposed to hygrothermal conditions, ...
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A mechanobiological model for tumor spheroid evolution with application to glioblastoma: A continuum multiphysics approach
(Elsevier, 2023)
Background: Spheroids are in vitro quasi-spherical structures of cell aggregates, eventually cultured within a hydrogel matrix, that are used, among other applications, as a technological platform to investigate ...
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A continuum large-deformation theory for the coupled modeling of polymer–solvent system with application to PV recycling
(Elsevier, 2023-06)
Nowadays recycling of photovoltaics (PV) using the solvent method is becoming a very hot topic as massive products deployed in the last century have approached the end of their service lifetime. The key problem in the ...
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Effect of Cohesive Properties on Low-Velocity Impact Simulations of Woven Composite Shells
(MDPI, 2023-06)
The effect of the interface stiffness and interface strength on the low-velocity impact response of woven-fabric semicylindrical composite shells is studied using finite element (FE) models generated with continuum shell ...
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A mechanobiological model for tumor spheroid evolution with application to glioblastoma: a continuum multiphysics approach
(Elsevier, 2023-06)
Background: Spheroids are in vitro quasi-spherical structures of cell aggregates, eventually cultured within a hydrogel matrix, that are used, among other applications, as a technological platform to investigate tumor ...