Faculty Profiles

Baskota, B., Zhang, B., & Anderson, P. S. L. (2026). The biomechanics of fish skin: assessing puncture resistance to the dynamic predatory mechanism of cone snails. Journal of Experimental Biology, 229(1), jeb250634. https://doi.org/10.1242/jeb.250634

Keeffe, R., Zhang, B., Philip  Anderson, L. ., & Patricia  Brennan, R. . (2025). Evolutionary morphology of genital spines informed by puncture mechanics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1698

Zhang, B. (2024). Curving expectations: The minimal impact of structural curvature in biological puncture mechanics. Science Advances. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adp8157

Zhang, B. (2024). How rate-based stretchability of soft solids controls fracture morphology in dynamic conical puncture. International Journal of Impact Engineering. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijimpeng.2024.104911

Zhang, B. (2024). Being thin-skinned can still reduce damage from dynamic puncture. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2024.0311

Zhang, B. (2023). Investigation of the rate-mediated form-function relationship in biological puncture. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39092-8

Zhang, B., & Anderson, P. S. L. (2022). Modelling biological puncture: a mathematical framework for determining the energetics and scaling. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2022.0559

Zhang, B., & Hutchens, S. B. (2021). On the relationship between cutting and tearing in soft elastic solids. Soft Matter, 17(28), 6728–6741. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1sm00527h

Zhang, B., Shiang, C.-S., Yang, S. J., & Hutchens, S. B. (2019). Y-Shaped Cutting for the Systematic Characterization of Cutting and Tearing. Experimental Mechanics, 59, 517–529. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11340-019-00479-2