Initial stresses originate in soft materials by the occurrence of misfits in the undeformed microstructure. Since the reference configuration is not stress-free, the effects of initial stresses on the hyperelastic behavior must be constitutively …
Many interesting shapes appearing in the biological world are formed by the onset of mechanical instability. In this work we consider how the build-up of residual stress can cause a solid to buckle. In all past studies a fictitious (virtual) …
Living matter can functionally adapt to external physical factors by developing internal tensions, easily revealed by cutting experiments. Nonetheless, residual stresses intrinsically have a complex spatial distribution, and destructive techniques …