This paper reports the development of reduced basis approximations, rigorous a posteriori error bounds, and offline-online computational procedures for the accurate, fast and reliable predictions of stress intensity factors or strain energy release rate for “Mode I” linear elastic crack problem. We demonstrate the efficiency and rigor of our numerical method in several examples. We apply our me...

We present a theoretical study of shaft-loaded blister test for the determination of the adhesion strength of thin polymer films and coatings to rigid substrates. The relationships among strain energy release rate, load, deflection and residual stress are fully investigated. A series of numerical results of finite element analysis allow us to verify the theory quantitatively and thus estimate t...

We examine if vibration of millimeter-sized cantilever sensors can release nonspecifically adsorbed proteins. Integrated electrochemical and mass-change measurement as well as fluorescence assays showed transverse surface vibration released nonspecifically bound proteins in samples prepared at 0.2-3.6 mg bovine serum albumin (BSA) per mL. Extent of release was directly related to magnitude of e...

The rupture of hydrogels and swellable elastomers involves large deformations, there exists a literature devoted to their experimental characterization including methods for measuring enhancing fracture toughness. Analytical investigations the have recognized importance deformations contributions liquid flow, but they largely been restricted plane-strain formulations that ignore through-thickne...

biomechanical properties of soft tissue, such as liver, are important in modeling computer aided surgical procedures. experimental evidences show that liver tissue is transversely isotropic. in this article, considering the liver tissue as an incompressible fiber-reinforced composite with one family of fibers, an exponential strain energy function (sef) is proposed. the proposed sef is based on...

fiber reinforced composites are widely used instead of traditional materials in various technological applications. therefore, by considering the extensive applications of these materials, a proper knowledge of their impact behavior (from low- to high-velocity) as well as their static behavior is necessary. in order to study the effects of strain rates on the behavior of these materials, specia...