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    • BMP Signaling Controls Buckling Forces to Modulate Looping Morphogenesis of the Gut 

      Nerurkar, Nandan; Mahadevan, Lakshminarayanan; Tabin, Clifford (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017-02-13)
      Looping of the initially straight embryonic gut tube is an essential aspect of intestinal morphogenesis, permitting proper placement of the lengthy small intestine within the confines of the body cavity. The formation of ...
    • Buckling Pneumatic Linear Actuators Inspired by Muscle 

      Yang, Dian; Verma, Mohit Singh; So, Ju-Hee; Mosadegh, Bobak; Keplinger, Christoph; Lee, Benjamin; Khashai, Fatemeh; Lossner, Elton Garret; Suo, Zhigang; Whitesides, George McClelland (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016)
      The mechanical features of biological muscles are difficult to reproduce completely in synthetic systems. A new class of soft pneumatic structures (vacuum-actuated muscle-inspired pneumatic structures) is described that ...
    • Compaction through Buckling in 2D Periodic, Soft and Porous Structures: Effect of Pore Shape 

      Overvelde, Johannes Tesse Bastiaan; Shan, Sicong; Bertoldi, Katia (Wiley Blackwell, 2012)
      Soft cellular structures that comprise a solid matrix with a square array of holes open avenues for the design of novel soft and foldable structures. Our results demonstrate that by simply changing the shape of the holes ...
    • Knockdown Factors for Buckling of Cylindrical and Spherical Shells Subject to Reduced Biaxial Membrane Stress 

      Hutchinson, John W. (Elsevier, 2010)
      Cylindrical shells under uniaxial compression and spherical shells under equi-biaxial compression display the most extreme buckling sensitivity to imperfections. In engineering practice, the reduction of load carrying ...
    • Periodic Patterns and Energy States of Buckled Films on Compliant Substrates 

      Cai, Shengqiang; Breid, Derek; Crosby, Alfred J.; Suo, Zhigang; Hutchinson, John W. (Elsevier, 2011)
      Thin stiff films on compliant elastic substrates subject to equi-biaxial compressive stress states are observed to buckle into various periodic mode patterns including checkerboard, hexagonal and herringbone. An experimental ...