Browsing MIT Open Access Articles by Author "Earl, Darla"

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    • The intimate relationship between cavitation and fracture 

      Raayai Ardakani, Shabnam; Earl, Darla; Cohen, Tal (Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2019-05)
      Nearly three decades ago, the field of mechanics was cautioned of the obscure nature of cavitation processes in soft materials [A. Gent, Cavitation in rubber: a cautionary tale, Rubber Chem. Technol., 1990, 63, 49–53]. ...

    • Volume-controlled cavity expansion for probing of local elastic properties in soft materials 

      Raayai Ardakani, Shabnam; Chen, Zhantao; Earl, Darla; Cohen, Tal (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2018-12)
      Cavity expansion can be used to measure the local nonlinear elastic properties in soft materials, regardless of the specific damage or instability mechanism that it may ultimately induce. To that end, we introduce a ...