Any safety assessment of a permanent repository for radioactive waste has to include an analysis of the geomechanical stability of the repository and integrity of the geological barrier. Such an analysis is based on ...

The pattern of cuticle deposition plays an important role in managing strain buildup in fruit cuticles. Cuticular strain is the primary trigger for numerous fruit-surface disorders in many fruit crop species. Recent evidence ...

The geometrically-exact finite-strain variable-thickness shell model of [1] is reviewed in this paper and extended to the case of metallic elastoplastic shells. Isotropic elasticity and von Mises yield criterion with ...

Microscopic cracks in the cuticle (microcracks) are the first symptom of the strawberry fruit disorder ‘water soaking’ in which the fruit surface appears watery, translucent, and pale. Water soaking severely impacts fruit ...