Strategic Design of Soft Actuators in Translational Medical Robotics for Human‐Centered Healthcare
Soft robotics enables biocompatible, compliant medical devices, but clinical translation requires design‐driven engineering beyond materials. This perspective reviews implantable, surgical, and wearable systems by actuation mechanism, highlighting how optimized architectures and integration improve mechanical interfacing, adaptability, and durability ...
Ho Jun Jin +3 more
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Large Deformation Theory Of Coupled Thermoplasticity Including Kinematic Hardening
Thermoplasticity is a topic central to important applications such as metalforming, ballistics and welding. The current investigation introduces a thermoplastic constitutive model accommodating the difficult issues of finite strain and kinematic ...
Nicholson, D. W.
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Shakedown and collapse of elastic-plastic structures under variable and cyclic loads
The paper presents an introduction to the results obtained mainly by the author in shakedown analysis of elastic plastic structures, with the shakedown theorems for elastic plastic kinematic hardening materials playing the central role. Some illustrative
Pham Duc Chinh
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Constitutive modeling of kinematic-hardening and damage in solder joints
Solder constitutive models are important as they are widely used in FEA simulations to predict the lifetime of soldered assemblies. This paper briefly reviews some common constitutive laws to capture creep in solder and presents work on laws capturing ...
Bailey, Christopher +7 more
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Learning‐Based Soft Robotic Grasping: Recent Progress and Remaining Challenges
This review analyzes learning‐based soft robotic grasping from a pipeline‐oriented perspective, encompassing soft gripper design, multimodal sensing, and learning‐based planning and control. It surveys key neural network architectures and benchmark datasets and identifies critical challenges such as sim‐to‐real transfer, generalization, and continual ...
Arnab Majumder +3 more
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A Low‐Cost, Handheld Optical Stiffness Sensor for Minimally Invasive Surgery
A novel handheld stiffness sensor is presented for real‐time tissue stiffness characterization. By simultaneously sensing contact force and tissue deformation, the device enables accurate stiffness quantification without requiring precise manual control. This approach offers a promising solution for intraoperative tumor detection and minimally invasive
Qianyu Ma +4 more
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Finite Element Implementation of a Temperature-Dependent Cyclic Plastic Model for SA508-3 Steel
A new temperature-dependent cyclic plastic model, combining the nonlinear cyclic softening and kinematic hardening rules is established for a nuclear material of SA508-3 steel.
Jun Tian +4 more
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We present a study on spring-back prediction in the stretching bending process using the Chaboche model combined isotropic-kinematic hardening law and Mises yielding criterion, and a material user subroutine (VUMAT, UMAT) program was developed base on ...
Xiao Xing Li +3 more
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Effect of kinematic hardening on localized necking in substrate-supported metal layers [PDF]
Prediction of necking limits in thin substrate-supported metal layers, which are typically used as functional components in electronic devices, represents nowadays an ambitious challenge. The specific purpose of the current work is, first, to numerically
ABED-MERAIM, Farid +1 more
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Autonomous Navigation of Pollen‐Inspired Magnetic Microrobots for Biomedical Applications
A sunflower pollen‐inspired magnetic microrobot enables controlled rolling navigation in vessel‐like environments. Its open geometry reduces hydrodynamic drag, while vision‐based closed‐loop control, shortest‐path planning, and reinforcement learning support target‐reaching and maze navigation with microrobot‐scale accuracy, highlighting a route toward
Ali Anil Demircali +6 more
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