The competitive practice of sailing and windsurfing has seen a recent revolution with the introduction of new appendixes of hydrofoils that generate lift and keep the board or the boat out of the water for a sufficiently high sailing speed (∼3... (...)

In this paper, the MecaWet group investigates the mechanics of two asymmetric ribbons bound at one end and pulled apart at the other ends. They characterize the elastic junction near the bonding and conceptualize it as a bending boundary layer.... (...)

We consider self-organization and memory formation in a mesoscopic model of an amorphous solid subject to a protocol of random shear confined to a strain range ±𝜖max. We develop proper readout protocols to show that the response of the driven ... (...)