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 ...

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.