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• Continuum Limit of Nonlocal Electrostatics in Random Media

  Prashant Jha, Kaushik Dayal

  • Electrostatic energy
  • two-scale convergence
  • continuum limit
  • stationary and ergodic random media
  • lattice stationarity

  Downloads: 0 - Submitted 2026-10-15 - Posted 2026-10-15

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• Adapting neural operators for mechanics decisions under changing operating conditions

  Prashant Jha, Koffi Enakoutsa, Ian Galloway, Henry Anderson

  • neural operators
  • Adaptive neural operators
  • distribution shift
  • nonlinear finite-element mechanics
  • prediction-specific error estimation
  • mechanics-based decision making
  • hard-magnetic soft materials
  • computational twins

  Downloads: 0 - Submitted 2026-10-15 - Posted 2026-10-15

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• On the Mathematical Structure of Helical Shear in Anelastic Continua

  Souhayl Sadik, Giuseppe Saccomandi, Luigi Vergori

  Downloads: 0 - Submitted 2026-10-14 - Posted 2026-10-14

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• Tomographic observation and modelling of three-dimensional fibre waviness in prepreg draping

  Zahra Hooshmand-Ahoor, Takamitsu Suzuki, Benjamin Huang, Kevin Jose , Anthony Dennis, Benjamin Russell, Vikram Deshpande

  Downloads: 58 - Submitted 2026-10-05 - Posted 2026-10-05 - Versions: 2

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• How Does Hard Magnetic Soft Matter Deform?

  Daniel Katusele, Carmel Majidi, Liping Liu, Pradeep Sharma, Kaushik Dayal

  Downloads: 50 - Submitted 2026-10-01 - Posted 2026-10-01

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• A physics-based minimal model for perforation of a plate by a spherical projectile

  Avyukt Satish, Shailendra Joshi

  • Ballistic limit equation
  • Hertz indentation
  • Plate bending
  • impact cratering
  • Mechanincs education

  Downloads: 76 - Submitted 2026-09-26 - Posted 2026-09-26

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• Nonlocal regularization of sharp-crack energetics: a variational bridge from Griffith geometry to emergent constitutive degradation

  Yuqi Sun

  • nonlocal regularization
  • variational fracture
  • $\Gamma$-convergence
  • emergent constitutive degradation
  • adaptive finite elements

  Downloads: 95 - Submitted 2026-09-24 - Posted 2026-09-24

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• Compressive Splitting in Brittle Solids: The Inverse of Wrinkling in Sheets

  Maryam Khodadad, Francois Barthelat, John Clayton, George Gazonas, Kaushik Dayal

  Downloads: 151 - Submitted 2026-09-16 - Posted 2026-09-16

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• Microbuckling-field theory: a new model for material instabilities in cellular solids

  Ryan McAvoy

  Downloads: 93 - Submitted 2026-09-12 - Posted 2026-09-12

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• Dynamic homogenization and emergent bianisotropy in thermoelasticity

  Gal Shmuel, John R. Willis

  Downloads: 108 - Submitted 2026-09-06 - Posted 2026-09-06

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