Mechanics of Soft Materials - Top 10 Downloaded Articles 2020

We want to thank the authors of our most-downloaded articles during 2020, and highlight to our readers some of the most impactful research to have published in the journal. We hope that you will find the data interesting.

The two Poisson's ratios in annulus fibrosus: relation with the osmo-inelastic features (this opens in a new tab)
by Amil Derrouiche, Anouar Karoui, Fahmi Zaïri, Jewan Ismail, Zhengwei Qu, Makram Chaabane & Fahed Zaïri 

A constitutive model for lung mechanics and injury applicable to static, dynamic, and shock loading (this opens in a new tab)
by J. D. Clayton & A. D. Freed

Some unexpected predictions from strongly anisotropic hyperelastic constitutive models of soft tissue| (this opens in a new tab)
by C.O. Horgan & J.G. Murphy

Adhesive contact between cylindrical (Ebola) and spherical (SARS-CoV-2) viral particles and a cell membrane (this opens in a new tab)
by Jiajun Wang, Nicole Lapinski, Xiaohui Zhang & Anand Jagota 

Factors influencing the mechanical properties of soft elastomer substrates for traction force microscopy (this opens in a new tab)
by Alejandra Magaly Reyes Lua, Raoul Hopf & Edoardo Mazza 

Instability and critical pulling rate of tethers in tether extension process using a mathematical model (this opens in a new tab)
by A. H. Karimi, M. Rahimi, S. Ziaei-Rad & H. R. Mirdamadi 

Void growth in swelled porous polymeric gels (this opens in a new tab)
by L. Siad, R. Rahouadj, J.-F. Ganghoffer, R. M. do Nascimento & P. Bravetti 

A computational homogenization approach for uniaxial stress state analyses of wavy fibrous materials (this opens in a new tab)
by Thiago André Carniel, Mauricio Lazzari, Bruno Klahr & Eduardo Alberto Fancello 

Residual stresses reduce pulse wave velocity in arteries (this opens in a new tab)
by P. Mythravaruni & K. Y. Volokh 

Modeling deformation and failure of viscoelastic composites at finite strains (this opens in a new tab)
by Jacob Aboudi & Konstantin Y. Volokh