Drexel researchers have shown that a recently discovered deformation phenomenon, called ripplocation, occurs in bulk materials when constrained during compression. Every material can bend and break.

From bone and wood to concrete and carbon fibre, composites are ubiquitous natural and synthetic materials. Eshelby’s inclusion theory describes how macroscopic stress fields couple to isolated ...

Solidification is the most direct route from liquid to engineering component, but difficulties remain in understanding and controlling casting defects. Many of the most damaging solidification defects ...

As is clear from the definition, rheology not only deals with the flow of liquid-like materials but also the deformation of solid-like materials, especially the behavior of viscoelastic materials that ...