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Allan F. Bower is a researcher affiliated with Brown University in the United States. Their research spans several fields including Engineering and Environmental Science, with subfields focused on Mechanical Engineering, Ecology, Automotive Engineering, Molecular Biology, and Pharmaceutical Science.

The scientist works on various topics that cover additive manufacturing, material behavior, biological membranes, and ecological studies. Specific main topics in their research include:

  • Additive Manufacturing Materials and Processes
  • Additive Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technologies
  • High Entropy Alloys Studies
  • Lipid Membrane Structure and Behavior
  • Advancements in Transdermal Drug Delivery
  • Bee Products Chemical Analysis
  • Avian ecology and behavior

Allan F. Bower has contributed to several peer-reviewed papers, with recent publications covering diverse research areas. Notable papers include:

  • "Microstructural origin of the anisotropic flow stress of laser powder bed fused AlSi10Mg," published in 2021 in Acta Materialia
  • "Melittin-Phospholipase A2 Synergism Is Mediated by Liquid-Liquid Miscibility Phase Transition in Giant Unilamellar Vesicles," published in 2024 in Langmuir
  • "Data loggers in artificial eggs reveal wild Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao macao) egg turning behavior," published in 2025 in Avian Biology Research

The venues where Allan F. Bower has frequently published include:

  • Acta Materialia
  • Langmuir
  • Avian Biology Research

Collaboration is a component of their research, with frequent coauthors including Peipei Li, Yoojin Kim, Andrew Bobel, Louis G. Hector, and Anil K. Sachdev.

Best Publications

  • Applied Mechanics of Solids

    Allan F. Bower

  • The influence of crack face friction and trapped fluid on surface initiated rolling contact fatigue cracks

    A. F. Bower

  • A finite strain model of stress, diffusion, plastic flow, and electrochemical reactions in a lithium-ion half-cell

    A.F. Bower;P.R. Guduru;V.A. Sethuraman

  • Indentation of a power law creeping solid

    A. F. Bower;Norman Andrew Fleck;A Needleman;N. Ogbonna

  • A simple technique for avoiding convergence problems in finite element simulations of crack nucleation and growth on cohesive interfaces

    Y F Gao;A F Bower

  • In Situ Measurements of Stress-Potential Coupling in Lithiated Silicon

    V. A. Sethuraman;V. Srinivasan;A. F. Bower;P. R. Guduru

  • The influence of strain hardening on cumulative plastic deformation in rolling and sliding line contact

    A.F. Bower;K.L. Johnson

  • Real-Time Stress Measurements in Lithium-ion Battery Negative-electrodes

    V.A. Sethuraman;N. Van Winkle;D.P. Abraham;A.F. Bower

  • A three-dimensional analysis of crack trapping and bridging by tough particles

    A.F. Bower;M. Ortiz

  • Measurement and modeling of the mechanical and electrochemical response of amorphous Si thin film electrodes during cyclic lithiation

    Giovanna Bucci;Siva P.V. Nadimpalli;Vijay A. Sethuraman;Allan F. Bower

  • Enhanced strain-rate sensitivity in fcc nanocrystals due to grain-boundary diffusion and sliding

    Yujie Wei;Allan F. Bower;Huajian Gao

  • Cyclic hardening properties of hard-drawn copper and rail steel

    A.F. Bower

  • Numerical simulations of island formation in a coherent strained epitaxial thin film system

    Y.W. Zhang;A.F. Bower

  • Plastic flow and shakedown of the rail surface in repeated wheel-rail contact

    A.F. Bower;K.L. Johnson

  • Diffuse interface model for electromigration and stress voiding

    Deepali N. Bhate;Ashish Kumar;Allan F. Bower

  • A finite element analysis of the motion and evolution of voids due to strain and electromigration induced surface diffusion

    L. Xia;A.F. Bower;Z. Suo;C.F. Shih

  • A simple finite element model of diffusion, finite deformation, plasticity and fracture in lithium ion insertion electrode materials

    A F Bower;P R Guduru

  • The behavior of an elastic–perfectly plastic sinusoidal surface under contact loading

    Y.F. Gao;A.F. Bower;K.-S. Kim;L. Lev

  • Elastic–plastic contact of a rough surface with Weierstrass profile

    Yan-Fei Gao;A.F Bower

  • Growth of whiskers from Sn surfaces: Driving forces and growth mechanisms

    Eric Chason;Nitin Jadhav;Fei Pei;Eric Buchovecky

  • Stress Mitigation during the Lithiation of Patterned Amorphous Si Islands for Li-Ion Batteries

    Sumit K. Soni;Brian Sheldon;Xingcheng Xiao;Mark Verbrugge

Frequent Co-Authors

Eric Chason
Eric Chason Brown University
Pradeep R. Guduru
Pradeep R. Guduru Brown University
Louis G. Hector
Louis G. Hector General Motors (United States)
Yanfei Gao
Yanfei Gao University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Michael Ortiz
Michael Ortiz California Institute of Technology
Yujie Wei
Yujie Wei Chinese Academy of Sciences
Huajian Gao
Huajian Gao Tsinghua University
Daniel P. Abraham
Daniel P. Abraham Argonne National Laboratory
Yong-Wei Zhang
Yong-Wei Zhang Institute of High Performance Computing
Mark W. Verbrugge
Mark W. Verbrugge General Motors (United States)

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