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    • Edge wrinkling in elastically supported pre-stressed incompressible isotropic plates 

      Destrade, Michel; Fu, Yibin; Nobili, Andrea (The Royal Society Publishing, 2016-09-07)
      The equations governing the appearance of flexural static perturbations at the edge of a semi-infinite thin elastic isotropic plate, subjected to a state of homogeneous bi-axial pre-stress, are derived and solved. The plate ...
    • The effect of an exterior electric field on the instability of dielectric plates 

      Su, Yipin; Chen, Weiqiu; Dorfmann, Luis; Destrade, Michel (The Royal Society, 2020-07-29)
      We investigate the theoretical nonlinear response, Hessian stability, and possible wrinkling behaviour of a voltage-activated dielectric plate immersed in a tank filled with silicone oil. Fixed rigid electrodes are placed ...
    • Effects of nerve bundle geometry on neurotrauma evaluation 

      Cinelli, Ilaria; Destrade, Michel; McHugh, Peter; Duffy, Maeve (Wiley, 2018-06-16)
      ObjectiveWe confirm that alteration of a neuron structure can induce abnormalities in signal propagation for nervous systems, as observed in brain damage. Here, we investigate the effects of geometrical changes and damage ...
    • Elastic Cherenkov effects in transversely isotropic soft materials-I: Theoretical analysis, simulations and inverse method 

      Li, Guo-Yang; Zheng, Yang; Liu, Yanlin; Destrade, Michel; Cao, Yanping (Elsevier, 2016-06-25)
      A body force concentrated at a point and moving at a high speed can induce shear-wave Mach cones in dusty-plasma crystals or soft materials, as observed experimentally and named the elastic Cherenkov effect (ECE). The ECE ...
    • Electro-elastic Lamb waves in dielectric plates 

      Conroy Broderick, Hannah; Dorfmann, Luis; Destrade, Michel (Elsevier, 2020-05-20)
      We study the propagation of Lamb waves in soft dielectric plates subject to mechanical and electrical loadings and find the explicit expressions for the dispersion equations in the cases of neo-Hookean and Gent dielectrics. ...
    • Electro-mechanical response of a 3D nerve bundle model to mechanical loads leading to axonal injury 

      Cinelli, Ilaria; Destrade, Michel; Duffy, Maeve; McHugh, Peter (Wiley, 2017-11-21)
      Traumatic brain injuries and damage are major causes of death and disability. We propose a 3D fully coupled electro-mechanical model of a nerve bundle to investigate the electrophysiological impairments due to trauma at ...
    • Electro-mechanically guided growth and patterns 

      Du, Yangkun; Su, Yipin; Lü, Chaofeng; Chen, Weiqiu; Destrade, Michel (Elsevier, 2020-07-01)
      Several experiments have demonstrated the existence of an electro-mechanical effect in many biological tissues and hydrogels, and its actual influence on growth, migration, and pattern formation. Here, to model these ...
    • Electrostatically tunable axisymmetric vibrations of soft electro-active tubes 

      Zhu, Fangzhou; Wu, Bin; Destrade, Michel; Chen, Weiqiu (Elsevier, 2020-05-28)
      Due to their unique electromechanical coupling properties, soft electro-active (SEA) resonators are actively tunable, extremely suitable, and practically important for designing the next-generation acoustic and vibration ...
    • Electrothermal equivalent three-dimensional finite-element model of a single neuron 

      Cinelli, Ilaria; Destrade, Michel; Duffy, Maeve; McHugh, Peter (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017-09-14)
      Objective: We propose a novel approach for modelling the interdependence of electrical and mechanical phenomena in nervous cells, by using electrothermal equivalences in finite element (FE) analysis so that existing ...
    • Emergence of instability-driven domains in soft stratified materials 

      Li, Jian; Slesarenko, Viacheslav; Rudykh, Stephan (Nature Research, 2022-05-02)
      Nature frequently employs the buckling phenomenon to facilitate the formation of complicated patterns across length-scales. Current knowledge, however, is limited to a small set of buckling-induced microstructure transformations ...
    • EndoCOM : Conception d un banc in vitro de simulation des anévrismes de l aorte abdominale 

      Destrade, Michel (2009)
      (FR) Le traitement des anévrismes de l'aorte abdominale par voie endovasculaire est aujourd'hui prédominant à plus de 65 % mais comporte encore des risques. Le suivi postopératoire devient alors crucial. Le projet de ...
    • Estimating average attributable fractions with confidence intervals for cohort and case control studies 

      Ferguson, John; Alvarez-Iglesias, Alberto; Newell, John; Hinde, John; O’Donnell, Martin (SAGE Publications, 2016-06-24)
      Chronic diseases tend to depend on a large number of risk factors, both environmental and genetic. Average attributable fractions were introduced by Eide and Gefeller as a way of partitioning overall disease burden into ...
    • Exceptional Vertex Operator Algebras and the Virasoro Algebra 

      Tuite, Michael P. (2008)
      We consider exceptional vertex operator algebras for which particular Casimir vectors constructed from the primary vectors of lowest conformal weight are Virasoro descendants of the vacuum. We discuss constraints on these ...
    • Explicit secular equation for Scholte waves over a monoclinic crystal 

      Destrade, Michel (Elsevier, 2004)
      Scholte waves are acoustic waves propagating at a fluid/solid interface. They are localized in the neighborhood of the phase boundary in the sense that they decay exponentially in both directions along the normal to the ...
    • The explicit secular equation for surface acoustic waves in monoclinic elastic crystals 

      Destrade, Michel (Acoustical Society of America, 2001-01-25)
      The secular equation for surface acoustic waves propagating on a monoclinic elastic half-space is derived in a direct manner, using the method of first integrals. Although the motion is at first assumed to correspond to ...
    • Explicit secular equations for piezoacoustic surface waves: Rayleigh modes 

      Destrade, Michel (American Institute of Physics, 2005-09-06)
      The existence of a two-partial Rayleigh wave coupled to an electrical field in 2 mm piezoelectric crystals is known but has rarely been investigated analytically. It turns out that the Z cut X propagation problem can be ...
    • Explicit secular equations for piezoacoustic surface waves: Shear-horizontal modes 

      Destrade, Michel (AIP Publishing, 2005-09-06)
      The existence of a two-partial Rayleigh wave coupled to an electrical field in 2 mm piezoelectric crystals is known but has rarely been investigated analytically. It turns out that the Z cut X propagation problem can be ...
    • Extreme resilience and dissipation in heterogeneous elasto-plastomeric crystals 

      Lee, Gisoo; Lee, Jaehee; Lee, Seunghyeon; Rudykh, Stephan; Cho, Hansohl (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2023-11-07)
      We present a microstructure-topology-based approach for designing macroscopic, heterogeneous soft materials that exhibit outstanding mechanical resilience and energy dissipation. We investigate a variety of geometric ...
    • Extreme softness of brain matter in simple shear 

      Destrade, Michel; Murphy, J.G.; Gilchrist, M.; Rashid, J.G.; Saccomandi, Giuseppe (Elsevier, 2015-03-13)
      We show that porcine brain matter can be modelled accurately as a very soft rubber-like material using the Mooney-Rivlin strain energy function, up to strains as high as 60%. This result followed from simple shear experiments ...
    • Fine tuning the electro-mechanical response of dielectric elastomers 

      Zurlo, Giuseppe; Destrade, Michel; Lu, Tongqing (AIP Publishing, 2018-10-16)
      We propose a protocol to model accurately the electromechanical behavior of dielectric elastomer membranes using experimental data of stress-stretch and voltage-stretch tests. We show how the relationship between electric ...