Publications & Talks

Li, J., Xie, Z., Varner, H., Chockalingam, S., and Cohen, T., 2025. Cylindrical cavity expansion for characterizing mechanical properties of soft materials. Extreme Mechanics Letters, p.102343. 

Li, X., Unikewicz, B., Chockalingam, S., da Rocha, H.B. and Cohen, T., 2025.  Interfacial Cavitation with Surface Tension: New Insights into Failure of Particle Reinforced Polymers.  arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.15631.

Bonavia, J.E., Chockalingam, S., Cohen, T., 2025. On the nonlinear Eshelby inclusion problem and its isomorphic growth limit. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids – Special issue edition issued commemorating Professor Rohan Abeyaratne’s 70th birthday.

Chockalingam, S. , 2025. On the construction of explicit analytical driving forces for crack nucleation in the phase field approach to brittle fracture with application to Mohr-Coulomb and Drucker-Prager strength surfaces. ASME. J. Appl. Mech. April 2025; 92(4): 041002. 

Chockalingam, S. and Cohen, T., 2024. A large deformation theory for coupled swelling and growth with application to growing tumors and bacterial biofilms. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, p.105627. 

Henzel, T.*, Nijjer, J.*, Chockalingam, S. *, Wahdat, H., Crosby, A.J., Yan, J. and Cohen, T., 2022. Interfacial Cavitation. PNAS nexus, 1(4), p.pgac217.   (* = Equal contribution)

Chockalingam, S., Lem, J. and Cohen, T., 2022. Thermo-chemo-mechanically coupled cavity dynamics and the emergence of multi-phase bursts. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 478(2264), p.20220247. 

Henzel, T.*, Chockalingam, S.* and Cohen, T., 2022. A Reciprocal Theorem for Finite Deformations in Incompressible Bodies. arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.08338. 

Berjamin, H. and Chockalingam, S., 2022. Shear shock formation in incompressible viscoelastic solids. Wave Motion, 110, p.102899 

Li, J., Kothari, M., Chockalingam, S., Henzel, T., Zhang, Q., Li, X., Yan, J. and Cohen, T., 2022. Nonlinear inclusion theory with application to the growth and morphogenesis of a confined body. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 159, p.104709. 

Li, J., Chockalingam, S. and Cohen, T., 2021. Observation of ultraslow shock waves in a tunable magnetic lattice. Physical Review Letters, 127(1), p.014302. 

Chockalingam, S., Roth, C., Henzel, T. and Cohen, T., 2021. Probing local nonlinear viscoelastic properties in soft materials. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 146, p.104172. 

Chockalingam, S. and Cohen, T., 2020. Shear shock evolution in incompressible soft solids. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 134, p.103746. 

Keralavarma, S.M. and Chockalingam, S., 2016. A criterion for void coalescence in anisotropic ductile materials. International Journal of Plasticity, 82, pp.159-176. 

"Novel Cavity Induced Characterization Techniques for Soft Rate-dependent Material Properties", 2022 Boulder Workshop on Soft & Active Matter Mechanics, University of Colorado Boulder, April 2022 

"Probing local nonlinear viscoelastic properties in soft materials", Closer Look Journal Club, October 2021

"Measuring local rate-dependent properties of soft materials using Volume Controlled Cavity Expansion", 25th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Keynote, August 2021

"The Nonlinear Eshelby Inclusion Problem and its Isomorphic Limit", Joseph Bonavia, Chockalingam Senthilnathan, Tal Cohen, International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition 2024, November 2024

"From Linear to Nonlinear: Advancing Eshelby's Theory for Soft Materials", Joseph Bonavia, Tal Cohen, Chockalingam Senthilnathan, 60th Annual Technical Meeting, Society of Engineering Sciences, October 2023