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Paparini, Silvia, Giusteri, Giulio G. and Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2025. Shape instabilities driven by topological defects in nematic polymer networks. Journal of Elasticity 157 (4) , 69. 10.1007/s10659-025-10160-6

Poudel, Rabin, Sengul Tezel, Yasemin and Mihai, L.Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2025. Deformation localisation in viscoelastic liquid crystal elastomers. Presented at: UK Association for Computational Mechanics Conference 2025, London, UK, 23-25 April 2025.

Liu, Yang, Goriely, Alain and Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2025. Elephant trunk wrinkles: A mathematical model of function and form. Nonlinearity 38 (3) , 035004. 10.1088/1361-6544/adaf6c

Poudel, Rabin, Sengul, Yasemin and Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2024. Deformation localisation in stretched liquid crystal elastomers. Mechanics of Soft Materials 6 , 8. 10.1007/s42558-024-00063-2

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 and Goriely, Alain 2024. Controllable deformations of unconstrained ideal nematic elastomers. Journal of Elasticity 156 (1) , pp. 95-106. 10.1007/s10659-023-10038-5

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2024. A mathematical mechanics mixed tape: Editor's foreword to special issue in honor of Alain Goriely. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids 29 (6) , pp. 1049-1052. 10.1177/10812865231210188

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2024. A theoretical model for power generation via liquid crystal elastomers. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids 29 (6) , pp. 1198-1215. 10.1177/10812865231193735

Mahardika, Nanang, Raistrick, Thomas, Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 and Wang, Haoran 2024. All-atom molecular dynamics simulations of nematic liquid crystal elastomers. International Journal of Solids and Structures 291 , 112717. 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2024.112717

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2023. A theoretical liquid crystal elastomer model that mimics the elasticity of cat skin. Mechanics of soft materials 5 , 4. 10.1007/s42558-023-00051-y

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729, Raistrick, Thomas, Gleeson, Helen F., Mistry, Devesh and Goriely, Alain 2023. A predictive theoretical model for stretch-induced instabilities in liquid crystal elastomers. Liquid Crystals 50 (7-10) , pp. 1426-1438. 10.1080/02678292.2022.2161655

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729, Gablier, Alexandra, Terentjev, Eugene and Goriely, Alain 2023. Anti-Hertz bulging of actuated liquid crystal elastomers. Extreme Mechanics Letters 64 , 102066. 10.1016/j.eml.2023.102066

Goriely, Alain, Moulton, Derek E. and Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2023. A rod theory for liquid crystalline elastomers. Journal of Elasticity 153 , pp. 509-532. 10.1007/s10659-021-09875-z

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729, Mistry, Devesh, Raistrick, Thomas, Gleeson, Helen F. and Goriely, Alain 2022. A mathematical model for the auxetic response of liquid crystal elastomers. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 380 , 20210326. 10.1098/rsta.2021.0326

Buze, MacIej ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8617-974X, Woolley, Thomas E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6225-5365 and Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2022. A stochastic framework for atomistic fracture. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 82 (2) , pp. 526-548. 10.1137/21M1416436

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2022. Stochastic elasticity: a nondeterministic approach to the nonlinear field theory. Interdisciplinary Applied Mathematics, Switzerland: Springer. 10.1007/978-3-031-06692-4

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 and Goriely, Alain 2021. Instabilities in liquid crystal elastomers. MRS Bulletin 46 , pp. 784-794. 10.1557/s43577-021-00115-2

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729, Wang, Haoran, Guilleminot, Johann and Goriely, Alain 2021. Nematic liquid crystalline elastomers are aeolotropic materials. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 477 (2253) , 20210259. 10.1098/rspa.2021.0259

Goriely, Alain and Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2021. Liquid crystal elastomers wrinkling. Nonlinearity 34 (8) , 5599. 10.1088/1361-6544/ac09c1

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 and Alamoudi, Manal 2021. Likely oscillatory motions of stochastic hyperelastic spherical shells and tubes. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics 130 , 103671. 10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2021.103671

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 and Goriely, Alain 2020. A plate theory for nematic liquid crystalline solids. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 144 , 104101. 10.1016/j.jmps.2020.104101

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 and Goriely, Alain 2020. A pseudo-anelastic model for stress softening in liquid crystal elastomers. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 476 (2243) , 20200558. 10.1098/rspa.2020.0558

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 and Goriely, Alain 2020. Likely striping in stochastic nematic elastomers. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids 25 (10) , pp. 1851-1872. 10.1177/1081286520914958

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729, Woolley, Thomas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6225-5365 and Goriely, Alain 2020. Likely cavitation and radial motion of stochastic elastic spheres. Nonlinearity 33 (5) , 1987. 10.1088/1361-6544/ab7104

Schweickert, Eva, Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729, Martin, Robert J. and Neff, Patrizio 2020. A note on non-homogeneous deformations with homogeneous Cauchy stress for a strictly rank-one convex energy in isotropic hyperelasticity. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics 119 , 103282. 10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2019.103282

Fitt, Danielle, Wyatt, Hayley, Woolley, Thomas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6225-5365 and Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2019. Uncertainty quantification of elastic material responses: testing, stochastic calibration and Bayesian model selection. Mechanics of Soft Materials 1 , 13. 10.1007/s42558-019-0013-1

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2019. Power in numbers: The rebel women of mathematics by Talithia Williams [Book Review]. London Mathematical Society Newsletter 485 , pp. 49-50.

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729, Fitt, Danielle, Woolley, Thomas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6225-5365 and Goriely, Alain 2019. Likely cavitation in stochastic elasticity. Journal of Elasticity 137 (1) , pp. 27-42. 10.1007/s10659-018-9706-1

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729, Woolley, Thomas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6225-5365 and Goriely, Alain 2019. Likely chirality of stochastic anisotropic hyperelastic tubes. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics 114 , pp. 9-20. 10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2019.04.004

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729, Fitt, Danielle, Woolley, Thomas E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6225-5365 and Goriely, Alain 2019. Likely equilibria of stochastic hyperelastic spherical shells and tubes. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids 24 (7) , pp. 2066-2082. 10.1177/1081286518811881

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729, Woolley, Thomas E. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6225-5365 and Goriely, Alain 2019. Likely equilibria of the stochastic Rivlin cube. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 377 (2144) , 20180068. 10.1098/rsta.2018.0068

Mihai, L.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729, Fitt, Danielle, Woolley, Thomas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6225-5365 and Goriely, Alain 2019. Likely oscillatory motions of stochastic hyperelastic solids. Transactions of Mathematics and Its Applications 3 (1) , tnz003. 10.1093/imatrm/tnz003

Wyatt, Hayley, Safar, Alexander, Clarke, Alastair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3603-6000, Evans, Samuel ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3664-2569 and Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2019. Nonlinear scaling effects in the stiffness of soft cellular structures. Royal Society Open Science 6 (1) , 181361.

Schweickert, Eva, Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 and Neff, Patrizio 2018. Homogeneous Cauchy stress induced by non-homogeneous deformations. Presented at: 89th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (GAMM), Munich, Germany, 19-23 March 2018. Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (PAMM) (1) Wiley, pp. 1-2. 10.1002/pamm.201800185

Safar, Alexander and Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2018. The nonlinear elasticity of hyperelastic models for stretch-dominated cellular structures. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics 106 , pp. 144-154. 10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2018.08.006

Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729, Safar, Alexander and Wyatt, Hayley Louise 2018. Debonding of cellular structures with fibre-reinforced cell walls under shear deformation. Journal of Engineering Mathematics 109 (1) , pp. 3-19. 10.1007/s10665-016-9894-2

Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 and Neff, Patrizio 2018. Hyperelastic bodies under homogeneous Cauchy stress induced by three-dimensional non-homogeneous deformations. Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids 23 (4) , pp. 606-616. 10.1177/1081286516682556

Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729, Woolley, Thomas ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6225-5365 and Goriely, Alain 2018. Stochastic isotropic hyperelastic materials: constitutive calibration and model selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society A 474 (2211) , 201708. 10.1098/rspa.2017.0858

Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 and Goriely, Alain 2017. How to characterize a nonlinear elastic material? A review on nonlinear constitutive parameters in isotropic finite elasticity. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 473 (2207) , 0607. 10.1098/rspa.2017.0607

Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729, Budday, Silvia, Holzapfel, Gerhard, Kuhl, Ellen and Goriely, Alain 2017. A family of hyperelastic models for human brain tissue. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 106 , pp. 60-79. 10.1016/j.jmps.2017.05.015

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729, Wyatt, Hayley and Goriely, Alain 2017. A microstructure-based hyperelastic model for open-cell solids. SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics 77 (4) , pp. 1397-1416. 10.1137/16M1098899

Safar, Alexander, Wyatt, Hayley Louise and Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2017. Debonding of cellular structures under shear deformation. Presented at: 25th Conference of the UK Association for Computational Mechanics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK, 11-13 April 2017.

Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729, Wyatt, Hayley Louise and Goriely, Alain 2017. Microstructure-based hyperelastic models for closed-cell solids. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 473 (2200) , 20170036. 10.1098/rspa.2017.0036

Lee, Chang-Kye, Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729, Hale, Jack S., Kerfriden, Pierre ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7749-3996 and Bordas, Stephane Pierre Alain ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8634-7002 2017. Strain smoothing for compressible and nearly-incompressible finite elasticity. Computers & Structures 182 , pp. 540-555. 10.1016/j.compstruc.2016.05.004

Neff, Patrizio and Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2017. Injectivity of the Cauchy-stress tensor along rank-one connected lines under strict rank-one convexity condition. Journal of Elasticity 127 (2) , pp. 309-315. 10.1007/s10659-016-9609-y

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 and Neff, Patrizio 2017. Hyperelastic bodies under homogeneous Cauchy stress induced by non-homogeneous finite deformations. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics 89 , pp. 93-100. 10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2016.12.003

Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2017. The ascent of Mary Somerville in 19th century society by Elisabetta Strickland [Book Review]. London Mathematical Society Newsletter March (467) , pp. 29-30.

Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729, Alayyash, Khulud and Wyatt, Hayley Louise 2017. The optimal density of cellular solids in axial tension. Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering 20 (7) , pp. 701-713. 10.1080/10255842.2017.1292352

Wyatt, Hayley L., Clarke, Alastair ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3603-6000, Evans, Samuel Lewin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3664-2569 and Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2017. Optical strain measurement techniques for soft cellular structures. Presented at: BSSM 12th International Conference on Advances in Experimental Mechanics, Sheffield, UK, 29 - 31 August 2017.

Wyatt, Hayley Louise, Alayyash, Khulud, Evans, Samuel Lewin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3664-2569 and Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2016. Computer modelling of cellular structures under uniaxial loading. Presented at: 24th Conference of the UK Association on Computational Mechanics, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK, 31 March - 1 April 2016. Cardiff: pp. 184-187.

Wyatt, Hayley Louise, Alayyash, Khulud and Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2016. Optimising material density of cellular bodies in high elastic deformations. Presented at: 24th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Montreal, Canada, 21-25 August 2016.

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 and Goriely, Alain 2016. Guaranteed upper and lower bounds on the uniform load of contact problems in elasticity. Siam Journal on Applied Mathematics 76 (4) , pp. 1558-1576. 10.1137/15M1046563

Mihai, L. Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729, Chin, LiKang, Janmey, Paul A. and Goriely, Alain 2015. A comparison of hyperelastic constitutive models applicable to brain and fat tissues. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 12 (110) , -. 10.1098/rsif.2015.0486

Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729, Alayyash, Khulud and Goriely, Alain 2015. Paws, pads, and plants: The enhanced elasticity of cell-filled load-bearing structures. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A 471 (2178) , 20150107. 10.1098/rspa.2015.0107

Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 and Goriely, Alain 2015. Finite deformation effects in cellular structures with hyperelastic cell walls. International Journal of Solids and Structures 53 , pp. 107-128. 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2014.10.015

Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 and Goriely, Alain 2014. Nonlinear Poisson effects in soft honeycombs. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 470 (2169) , 20140363. 10.1098/rspa.2014.0363

Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2013. Cardiff students hold first SIAM Chapter Day. SIAM News 2013 (1 Apr)

Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 and Goriely, Alain 2013. Numerical simulation of shear and the Poynting effects by the finite element method: An application of the generalised empirical inequalities in non-linear elasticity. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics 49 , pp. 1-14. 10.1016/j.ijnonlinmec.2012.09.001

Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 and Goriely, Alain 2011. Positive or negative Poynting effect? The role of adscititious inequalities in hyperelastic materials. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 467 (2136) , pp. 3633-3646. 10.1098/rspa.2011.0281

Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2010. A fixed-point approach to the limit load analysis of multibody structures with Coulomb friction. Computers & Structures 88 (13-14) , pp. 859-869. 10.1016/j.compstruc.2010.04.005

Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 and Craig, Alan W. 2009. Alternate slice-based substructuring in three dimensions. Ima Journal of Numerical Analysis 29 (3) , pp. 508-538. 10.1093/imanum/drn023

Ainsworth, Mark and Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2009. An adaptive multi-scale approach to the modelling of masonry structures. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 78 (10) , pp. 1135-1163. 10.1002/nme.2520

Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 and Ainsworth, Mark 2009. An adaptive multi-scale computational modelling of Clare College Bridge. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 198 (21-26) , pp. 1839-1847. 10.1016/j.cma.2008.12.030

Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 and Ainsworth, Mark 2009. A finite element procedure for rigorous numerical enclosures on the limit load in the analysis of multibody structures. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 199 (1-4) , pp. 48-60. 10.1016/j.cma.2009.09.018

Ainsworth, Mark and Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2007. Modeling and numerical analysis of masonry structures. Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations 23 (4) , pp. 798-816. 10.1002/num.20253

Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 and Craig, Alan W. 2006. Alternate strip-based substructuring algorithms for elliptic PDEs in two dimensions. Ima Journal of Numerical Analysis 26 (2) , pp. 354-380. 10.1093/imanum/dri025

Ainsworth, Mark and Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 2006. A comparison of solvers for linear complementarity problems arising from large-scale masonry structures. Applications of Mathematics 51 (2) , pp. 93-128. 10.1007/s10492-006-0008-8

Mihai, Loredana Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0863-3729 and Craig, Alan W. 2005. A two-grid alternate strip-based domain decomposition strategy in two-dimensions. Kornhuber, R., Hoppe, R. W., Priaux, J., Pironneau, O., Widlund, O. and Xu, J., eds. Domain Decomposition Methods in Science and Engineering, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 661-668. (10.1007/3-540-26825-1_71)