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FAU researchers investigate the processes involved in cutting soft tissue Most of us never think twice about how best to bite into a sausage or cut off a piece of it to savor. As long as it tastes good, we’re happy. Dissecting such soft materials remains poorly researched, and modern science...

On the occasion of the visit of Karl Kalina and Franz Dammaß from TU Dresden, we are organizing a Symposium for scientific exchange. The talks are aligned with the research topics of SOFTFRAC and DISCOVER ERC projects. You are warmly invited to join us on Monday, January 19, for the Symposium. The ...

Soft materials like rubber or silicone tear easily under tensile stress. In SoftFrac we are looking for ways to make such materials more stable. In a current study, we have shown that it depends, at least partly, on how stable the crosslinked bonds are between the polymer molecules. If the crosslink...

Mr. Terrence Pereira has successfully defended his MSc thesis on the topic of soft fracture mechanics. His work presented a comprehensive experimental and computational study of the soft elastomer VHB Tape. The Configurational Force Method was employed to guide experiments on crack propagation under...

Softfrac has initiated a Zenodo community to provide open access to research materials. The community can be accessed at: https://zenodo.org/communities/ercsoftfrac

We are happy to announce that we will host a mini symposium during ECCOMAS 2024 (https://eccomas2024.org/): MS115 - "Failure Mechanics of Soft Materials: Modeling and Experimental Approaches", which will be part of the conference taking place in Lisbon, Portugal from June 3rd to June 7th, 2024. ...