Elasticity-controlled jamming criticality in soft composite solids.

ABSTRACT: Soft composite solids are made of inclusions dispersed within soft matrices. They are ubiquitous in nature and form the basis of many biological tissues. In the field of materials science, synthetic soft composites are promising candidates for building various engineering devices due to their highly programmable features. However, when the volume fraction of the inclusions increases, predicting the mechanical properties of these materials poses a significant challenge for the classical theories of composite mechanics. The difficulty arises from the inherently disordered, multi-scale interactions between the inclusions and the matrix. To address this challenge, we systematically investigated the mechanics of densely filled soft elastomers containing stiff microspheres. We experimentally dem

SUBMITTER: Zhao Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10894283 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature