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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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TFMLAB: A MATLAB toolbox for 4D traction force microscopy
(Elsevier B.V, 2021-07)
We present TFMLAB, a MATLAB software package for 4D (x;y;z;t) Traction Force Microscopy (TFM). While various TFM computational workflows are available in the literature, open-source programs that are easy to use by researchers ...
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In silico dynamic characterization of the femur: Physiological versus mechanical boundary conditions
(Elsevier, 2018-08)
It is established that bone tissue adapts and responds to mechanical loading. Several studies have suggested an existence of positive influence of vibration on the bone mass maintenance. Thus, some bone regeneration therapies ...
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Revisiting the problem of a crack impinging on an interface: A modeling framework for the interaction between the phase field approach for brittle fracture and the interface cohesive zone model
(Elsevier, 2017-07)
The problem of a crack impinging on an interface has been thoroughly investigated in the last three decades due to its important role in the mechanics and physics of solids. In the current investigation, this problem is ...
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Numerical investigation of the coupled mechanical behavior of self-healing materials under cyclic loading
(Elsevier, 2019-03)
Self-healing structural materials are recognized as a cost effective and sustainable promising alternative to traditional maintenance methods of civil infrastructures. Great advances are being evidenced both in the ...
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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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Fracture of solar-grade anisotropic polycrystalline Silicon: A combined phase field–cohesive zone model approach
(Elsevier, 2018-03)
This work presents a novel computational framework to simulate fracture events in brittle anisotropic polycrystalline materials at the microscopical level, with application to solar-grade polycrystalline Silicon. Quasi-static ...