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Sage Journals @journals.sagepub.com · 23/06/2026

International Women in Engineering Day (23 June) celebrates women shaping engineering worldwide. Explore research shaped by women across Sage journals, plus author and editor perspectives: ow.ly/B0ZZ50ZeIFL #INWED26 #EngineeringIntelligence #WomenInEngineering

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L. Angela Mihai @langelamihai.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

We develop a constitutive and numerical framework for the large-strain viscoelasticity of nematic liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) under loading and unloading, capturing elastic and viscous effects from both polymer deformation and liquid crystal rotation www.researchgate.net/publication/...

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L. Angela Mihai @langelamihai.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Read the Editorial for our Special Collection on Liquid Crystal Elastomers and Their Theory rdcu.be/eZ56h published by Journal of Elasticity

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Editorial for Special Collection on Liquid Crystal Elastomers and Their Theory

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L. Angela Mihai @langelamihai.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Our paper "Shape instabilities driven by topological defects in nematic polymer networks" adopts an elegant variational approach to model theoretically, for the first time, a wide range of topological defects in liquid crystalline networks doi.org/10.1007/s106...

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Yang Liu @yangliu-mechanics.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Excited to share our paper on the mathematical modelling of elephant trunk wrinkles, working with @langelamihai.bsky.social and @alaingoriely.bsky.social. We provide qualitative insight into surface wrinkles in elephant trunks based on nonlinear morphoelasticity. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1....

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L. Angela Mihai @langelamihai.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

My first post here highlights our recent fundamental theoretical and computational work on "Deformation localisation in stretched liquid crystal elastomers", Mechanics of Soft Materials 6, 8 (2024) doi.org/10.1007/s425... #LCE #necking #order-parameter #shear-striping #nematic-penetration-depth

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