Publications
Hydraulic fracture and toughening of a brittle layer bonded to a hydrogel. Physical Review Letters. 115:188105.
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2015. Liquid crystal elastomer strips as soft crawlers. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids. 84:254-272.
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2015. Crawling on directional surfaces. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics. 61:65-73.
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2014. Discrete one-dimensional crawlers on viscous substrates: achievable net displacements and their energy cost. Mechanics Research Communications. 58:73–81.
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2014. A robotic crawler exploiting directional frictional interactions: Experiments, numerics and derivation of a reduced model. Proceedings of the Royal Society A. 470:20140333.
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2014. An analysis of competing toughening mechanisms in layered and particulate solids. International Journal of Fracture. 183:241-258.
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2013. Crawlers in viscous environments: linear vs. nonlinear rheologies. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics. 56:142-147.
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