Publications

 Journal

2024

• Magnetically-programmed instability-driven pattern transformations in soft materials
  N. Arora, V. Chen, A. Cherkasov, Y. Xiang, A. Juhl, P. Buskohl, S. Rudykh
  Advanced Functional Materials 2401077 (2024)

• Elastic instabilities of soft laminates with stiffening behavior
  Q. Yao, N. Arora, D. Chen, Y. Xiang, S. Rudykh
  Applied Mathematical Modelling (2024)

2023

• Mechanical instability tuning of a magnetorheological elastomer composite laminate
  V. Chen, N. Arora, A. Goshkoderia, C. L. Willey, Z. Turgut, P. Buskohl, S. Rudykh, A. Juhl
  Composites Part B: Engineering 251, 110472 (2023)

• Post-Buckling Development in Soft Particulate Composites
  D. Chen, Y. Xiang, N. Arora, Q. Yao, J. Li, S. Rudykh
  Composite Structures, 117337 (2023)

• Towards understanding the role of viscoelasticity in microstructural buckling in soft particulate composites
  Y. Xiang, D. Chen, N. Arora, Q. Yao, S. Rudykh
  Composites Part B: Engineering 263, 110850 (2023)

• Nonlinear elastic vector solitons in hard-magnetic soft mechanical metamaterials
  Q. Zhang, A. Cherkasov, C. Xie, N. Arora, and S. Rudykh
  International Journal of Solids and Structures 280, 112396 (2023)

• Magnetic field-induced asymmetric mechanical metamaterials
  Q. Zhang, A. Cherkasov, N. Arora, G. Hu, S. Rudykh
  Extreme Mechanics Letters 59, 101957 (2023)

2022

• Tunable buckling configurations via in-plane periodicity in soft 3D-fiber composites: Simulations and experiments
  N. Arora, J. Li, S. Rudykh
  International Journal of Solids & Structures 250, 111711 (2022) 

• Deformation activated negative group velocity state in soft laminates
  N. Arora, Q. Yao, S. Rudykh
  Extreme Mechanics Letters 51, 101592 (2022)

• Instability-induced patterns and their post-buckling development in soft particulate composites
  D. Chen, N. Arora, Y. Xiang, J. Li, V. Slesarenko, S. Rudykh
  Mechanics of Materials 175, 104482 (2022) 

• Dielectric Elastomer Architectures with Strain-Tunable Permittivity
  M. O’Neill, D. Sessions, N. Arora, V. Chen, A. Juhl, G. Huff, S. Rudykh, R. Shepherd, P. Buskohl
  Advanced Materials Technologies 7, 2200296 (2022) 

• Structural and material electro-mechanical instabilities in microstructured dielectric elastomer plates
  M. Bahreman, N. Arora, H. Darijani, S. Rudykh
  European Journal of Mechanics-A/Solids 94, 104534 (2022) 

• Magnetoelastic instabilities in soft laminates with ferromagnetic hyperelastic phases
  P. Pathak, N. Arora, S. Rudykh
  International Journal of Mechanical Sciences 213, 106862 (2022) 

2021

• Multiscale analysis of elastic waves in soft materials: From molecular chain networks to fiber composites
  N. Arora, Y. Xiang, S. Rudykh
  International Journal of Mechanical Sciences 200, 106433 (2021) 

• Elastic instabilities, microstructure transformations, and pattern formations in soft materials
  J. Li, N. Arora, S. Rudykh
  Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science 25, 100898 (2021) 

2020

• Microscopic and long-wave instabilities in 3D fiber composites with non-Gaussian hyperelastic phases
  N. Arora, J. Li, V. Slesarenko, S. Rudykh
  International Journal of Engineering Science 157, 103408 (2020) 

• Mechanical  characterization  and  constitutive  modeling of visco-hyperelasticity of photocured polymers
  Y. Xiang, C. Schilling, N. Arora, AJ Boydston, S. Rudykh
  Additive Manufacturing 36, 101511 (2020) 

• Tunable permittivity in dielectric elastomer composites under finite strains: Periodicity, randomness, and instabilities
  A. Goshkoderia, N. Arora, V. Slesarenko, J. Li, V. Chen, A. Juhl, P. Buskohl, S. Rudykh
  International Journal of Mechanical Sciences 186, 105880 (2020) 

2019

• On the influence of inhomogeneous interfacial layers on instabilities in hyperelastic composites
  N. Arora, A. Batan, J. Li, V. Slesarenko, S. Rudykh
  Materials 12, 763 (2019) 

2018

• A modulated voltage waveform for enhancing the travel range of dielectric elastomer actuators
  N. Arora, P. Kumar, M. M. Joglekar
  Journal of Applied Mechanics 85, 111009 (2018) 

• DC dynamic pull-in instability of a dielectric elastomer balloon: an energy-based approach
  A. K. Sharma, N. Arora, M. M. Joglekar
  Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 474, 20170900 (2018) 

Conferences/Talks 

• APS March meeting (2024)

• APS March meeting (2023)

• Society of Engineering Science (SES) Annual Meeting (2022)

• Gordon Research Conference on Multifunctional Materials and Structures (2022)

• International Conference on Recent Advances in Mechanical Engineering (2022)

• European Solid Mechanics Conference (2022)

• U.S. National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (2022)

• APS March meeting (2022)

• International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics  (ICTAM) (2021)

• APS March meeting (2021)

• Rencontre du non-lineaire (RNL) (2021) 

• Graduate Engineering Mechanics Seminar (GEMS) (2021)

• Society of Engineering Science (SES) Annual meeting (2019)

• Midwest Mechanics Graduate Student Symposium (2019)

• Student Research Convention - IIT Kanpur (2018)

• Fluid Mechanics Fluid Power (2016)