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Effects of pre-stretch, compressibility and material constitution on the period-doubling secondary bifurcation of a film/substrate bilayer (2019)
Journal Article
Cai, Z., & Fu, Y. (2019). Effects of pre-stretch, compressibility and material constitution on the period-doubling secondary bifurcation of a film/substrate bilayer. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 11 -19. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2019.05.001

We refine a previously proposed semi-analytical method, and use it to study the effects of pre-stretch, compressibility and material constitution on the period-doubling secondary bifurcation of a uni-axially compressed film/substrate bilayer structur... Read More about Effects of pre-stretch, compressibility and material constitution on the period-doubling secondary bifurcation of a film/substrate bilayer.

An experimental study of localized bulging in inflated cylindrical tubes guided by newly emerged analytical results (2019)
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Wang, S., Guo, Z., Zhou, L., Li, L., & Fu, Y. (2019). An experimental study of localized bulging in inflated cylindrical tubes guided by newly emerged analytical results. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 536-554. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2018.11.011

An experimental study is conducted on localized bulging of inflated latex rubber tubes of a range of wall thicknesses and tube lengths, guided by newly emerged analytical results. In the case when the tube has one free closed end that may or may not... Read More about An experimental study of localized bulging in inflated cylindrical tubes guided by newly emerged analytical results.

An evaluation of the Gent and Gent-Gent material models using inflation of a plane membrane (2018)
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Fu. (2018). An evaluation of the Gent and Gent-Gent material models using inflation of a plane membrane. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 39-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2018.07.035

The Gent material model is the simplest extension of the neo-Hookean material model that can describe the finite extensibility of the polymeric chains comprising the elastomer network. However, it is known that its fitting to experimental results of... Read More about An evaluation of the Gent and Gent-Gent material models using inflation of a plane membrane.

Nonlinear tubular organ modeling and analysis for tracheal angioedema by swelling-morphoelasticity (2018)
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Fu. (2018). Nonlinear tubular organ modeling and analysis for tracheal angioedema by swelling-morphoelasticity. Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 95 - 117. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10665-018-9967-5

We study one of the important human tubular organs, the trachea, under deformation caused by the disease angioedema. This pathology can suddenly increase the volume of the trachea and cause serious breathing difficulty. Two popular theories, the swel... Read More about Nonlinear tubular organ modeling and analysis for tracheal angioedema by swelling-morphoelasticity.

A reduced model for electrodes-coated dielectric plates (2018)
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Fu. (2018). A reduced model for electrodes-coated dielectric plates. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 60-69. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2018.09.001

We derive a reduced theory describing the incremental deformation of an electrodes-coated dielectric plate that takes the leading-order thickness effect into account. By focusing on deformations that are symmetric with respect to the mid-plane, a pow... Read More about A reduced model for electrodes-coated dielectric plates.

Localized necking of a dielectric membrane (2018)
Journal Article
Fu. (2018). Localized necking of a dielectric membrane. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 44-48. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eml.2018.03.005

We first revisit the problem of localized bulging of an inflated rubber tube, and show that the associated bifurcation condition is equivalent to the vanishing of the determinant of the Hessian of the strain-energy density function when the latter is... Read More about Localized necking of a dielectric membrane.

Localized Bulging Of Rotating Elastic Cylinders And Tubes (2017)
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Fu, Y. (2017). Localized Bulging Of Rotating Elastic Cylinders And Tubes. Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures, 545 - 561. https://doi.org/10.2140/jomms.2017.12.545

We investigate axially symmetric localized bulging of an incompressible hyperelastic circular solid cylinder or tube that is rotating about its axis of symmetry with angular velocity ?. For such a solid cylinder, the homogeneous primary deformation i... Read More about Localized Bulging Of Rotating Elastic Cylinders And Tubes.

On the near-critical behavior of cavitation in elastic plane membranes (2017)
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Fu, Y., Geng, Y., & Cai, Z. (2017). On the near-critical behavior of cavitation in elastic plane membranes. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics, 47-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2017.04.012

Material cavitation under tensile loading is often studied by assuming the pre-existence of a small void. In this case the void would initially grow but without significant change in its size, and cavitation is said to take place if this slow growth... Read More about On the near-critical behavior of cavitation in elastic plane membranes.