A novel class of programmable, self-healing hydrogel nanocomposites has been developed by combining cellulose nanocrystals ...

China’s western alpine regions are rich in mineral resources. However, factors such as freeze-thaw erosion, earthquakes, rainfall, and mining disturbances have weakened the strength of rock masses in ...

Depth sensing indentation is a powerful experimental technique for determining mechanical properties of materials. In this work a computational routine was developed based on Oliver-Pharr method for ...

Abstract: The in-situ dynamic modulus property of asphalt mixtures is critical to aiding the decision-making of pavement maintenance and rehabilitation. With the recent advancement in data science and ...

CAS Key Laboratory of Engineering Plastics, Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences, Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, P.R. China University of Chinese ...

Dynamic bonds have been found to enhance fracture toughness of hydrogels as sacrificial bonds, but the role of dynamic bonds to fatigue threshold of hydrogels is poorly understood because the wide ...

Dynamic Modulus, E is a complex parameter that relates stress to strain of a linear viscoelastic material as a function of loading rate and temperature. It Describes how the stiffness of HMA mixtures ...

Mastering mechanical properties of polymers at nanometer scale is highly demanded yet remains challenging. Pioneering advances determined Young’s modulus in ultrathin polymer films and attained ...

Dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) is an analytical technique used for measuring the modulus (stiffness) and damping (energy dissipation) characteristics of materials that are deformed due to periodic ...