Dissemination Activities

AWARDS

• Diego Misseroni is the recipient of the 2024 "Thomas J. R. Hughes (ASME) Young Investigator Award for contributions to the fundamental understanding of the mechanical behavior of architected metamaterials by innovative experimental realizations leading to new insights and theoretical findings.

• The work of Prof. Davide Bigoni is awarded with "the best work presented at the XXVII International Congress of the Italian Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics (A.I.D.A.A. Padua, Italy, September 4–7, 2023)"
  
    

• Prof. Diego Misseroni is awarded with the 2022 Zwick Roell Science Award and Paul Roell Medal for "innovative use of material testing machines in conducting experiments on metamaterials".
  
  

• The Beyond research team has been awarded for the Best Video in the Gallery of Nonlinear Dynamics at the IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear dynamics for design of mechanical systems across different length/time scales, July 31 - August 4, 2023, Tsukuba, Japan.
  
    

• Dr Matteo Gaibotti, a member of the Beyond research team, has been the winner of the bronze award for the best presentation by a PhD student at the workshop "Mathematical Modelling in Solids and Structures".
  
    

• Professor Diego Misseroni, a member of the Beyond research team, has been selected as winner of the prestigious Extreme Mechanics Letters (EML) Young Investigator Award for the paper “Experimental realization of tunable Poisson’s ratio in deployable origami metamaterials”. Misseroni’s paper presents a novel experimental setup to perform Poisson’s ratio experiments on origami-based metamaterials. The EML Young Investigator Award honors the best young researchers who have published their highly impactful papers in the EML journal.
  
    

ARTICLES IN REFERRED JOURNALS
Copies of the original articles for the reader's personal research and study can be requested emailing to davide.bigoni@unitn.it

• Viviani, L., Bigoni, D., Piccolroaz, A. (2024).
  Homogenization of elastic grids containing rigid elements.
  Mechanics of Materials 191, 104933.
  doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmat.2024.104933
  [OPEN ACCESS].
  ArXiv Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14851
  Zenodo Preprint: https://zenodo.org/records/11196415
  

• Cabras, L., Bigoni D., Piccolroaz, A. (2024).
  Dynamics of elastic lattices with sliding constraints.
  Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 480: 20230579.
  doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2023.0579
  ArXiv Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06663.
  

• Cavuoto, R., Lenarda, P., Tampieri, A., Bigoni, D., Paggi, M. (2024).
  Phase-field modelling of failure in ceramics with multiscale porosity.
  Materials & Design 238, 112708.
  doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2024.112708
  [OPEN ACCESS].
  ArXiv Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.16844
  Zenodo Preprint: https://zenodo.org/records/10572876
  

• Gaibotti, M., Mogilevskaya, S.G., Piccolroaz, A., Bigoni D. (2024).
  Bifurcations of an elastic disc coated with an elastic inextensible rod.
  Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 480: 20230491.
  doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2023.0491
  [OPEN ACCESS].
  ArXiv Preprint: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.07455.pdf
  

• Bigoni, D., Dal Corso, F., Kirillov, O., Misseroni, D., Noselli, G., Piccolroaz, A. (2023).
  Flutter instability in solids and structures, with a view on biomechanics and metamaterials.
  Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 479: 20230523.
  doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2023.0523
  [COVER PAPER, OPEN ACCESS].
  ArXiv Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.07092
  
  

• Fraldi, M., Palumbo, S., Cutolo, A., Bigoni, D. (2023)
  Bimodal buckling governs human fingers' luxation.
  PNAS, 120(44), e2311637120.
  doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2311637120
  [OPEN ACCESS]
  ArXiv Preprint: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2401.10585
  Zenodo Preprint: https://zenodo.org/records/10519216
  

• Koutsogiannakis, P., Misseroni, D., Bigoni, D., Dal Corso, F. (2023)
  Stabilization against gravity and self-tuning of an elastic variable-length rod through an oscillating sliding sleeve.
  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 181, 105452. [OPEN ACCESS]
  doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2023.105452
  ArXiv Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.08514.

• Rossi, M., Piccolroaz, A., Bigoni, D. (2023)
  Fusion of two stable elastic structures resulting in an unstable system.
  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 173, 105201. [OPEN ACCESS]
  doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2023.105201
  ArXiv Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.04957.

• Hima, N., D'Annibale, F., Dal Corso, F. (2023)
  Non-smooth dynamics of buckling based metainterfaces: rocking-like motion and bifurcations.
  International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 242, 108005.
  doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2022.108005
  ArXiv Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.06078

• Cavuoto, R., Cutolo, A., Dayal, K., L., Deseri L., Fraldi, M. (2023)
  Distal and non-symmetrical crack nucleation in delamination of plates via dimensionally-reduced peridynamics.
  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 172, 105189.
  doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2022.105189
  ArXiv Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.02481v1
  Zenodo Preprint: https://zenodo.org/records/10512997
  

• Carotenuto, A.R., Gaffney, A., Nguyen, N., Lee, K.Y.C., Pocivavsek, L., Fraldi, M., Deseri, L. (2023)
  Towards predicting shear-banding instabilities in lipid monolayers.
  Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 141, 105743.
  doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2023.105743
  ArXiv Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.10593v1
  Zenodo Preprint: https://zenodo.org/records/10519151
  

• Mirandola, A., Cutolo, A., Carotenuto, A.R., Nguyen, N., Pocivavsek, L., Fraldi, M., Deseri L. (2023)
  Toward new scaling laws for wrinkling in biologically relevant fiber-reinforced bilayers.
  Journal of Applied Physics, 134, 154702.
  doi: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0161150
  ArXiv Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.12157
  Zenodo Preprint: https://zenodo.org/records/10552596
  

• Koutsogiannakis, P., Bigoni, D., Dal Corso F. (2023)
  Double restabilization and design of force-displacement response of the extensible elastica with movable constraints.
  European Journal of Mechanics - A/Solids, 100, 104745.
  doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euromechsol.2022.104745
  ArXiv Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/2208.05248.

• Springhetti, R., Rossetto, G., Bigoni, D. (2023)
  Buckling of Thin-Walled Cylinders from Three Dimensional Nonlinear Elasticity.
  Journal of Elasticity, 154, 297-323.
  doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10659-022-09905-4
  [OPEN ACCESS]
  ArXiv Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.09907.

• Mora, S., Pugno, N. M., Misseroni, D. (2022)
  3D printed architected lattice structures by material jetting.
  Materials Today, 56. [COVER PAPER]
  doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2022.05.008
  ArXiv Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12634
  
  

• Liu, K., Pratapa, P. P., Misseroni, D., Tachi, T., Paulino, G. H. (2022)
  Triclinic Metamaterials by Tristable Origami with Reprogrammable Frustration.
  Advanced Materials, 43. [COVER PAPER]
  doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202270298
  ArXiv Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.13799
  
  

• Bordiga, G., Bigoni, D., Piccolroaz, A. (2022)
  Tensile material instabilities in elastic beam lattices lead to a closed stability domain.
  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 380, 20210388. [COVER PAPER]
  doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2021.0388
  ArXiv Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.00507.
  
  

• Cavuoto R., Lenarda P., Misseroni D., Paggi M., and Bigoni D. (2022)
  Failure through crack propagation in components with holes and notches: an experimental assessment of the phase field model.
  International Journal of Solids and Structures, 257, 111798.
  doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2022.111798
  ArXiv Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.09362
  [Movie 1/4]   [Movie 2/4]   [Movie 3/4]   [Movie 4/4]
  

• Giarola, D., Dal Corso, F., Capuani, D., Bigoni, D. (2022)
  Interactions between multiple rigid lamellae in a ductile metal matrix: shear band magnification and attenuation in localization patterns.
  Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 165, 104925.
  doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2022.104925
  Zenodo Preprint: https://zenodo.org/record/7368854

• Hima, N., Bigoni, D., Dal Corso, F. (2022)
  Buckling vs unilateral constraint for a multistable metamaterial element.
  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 380, 2231.
  doi: https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2022.0021
  ArXiv Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.02034
  

PHD THESES

• May 2024 Marco Amato "Elastic solids under frictionless rigid contact and configurational force"
  Advisors: Davide Bigoni, Francesco Dal Corso, Andrea Piccolroaz

• April 2023 Matteo Gaibotti "Models for coated elastic bodies" (currently under embargo)
  Advisors: Davide Bigoni, Sofia Mogilevskaya, Andrea Piccolroaz

CONGRESS ORGANIZATION

• D.B. member of the International Advisory Board (IAB) of the 43rd Solid Mechanics Conference (SolMech 2024), Wrocław, Poland, on 16-18 September 2024.

• D.B. co-chairman of the Thematic Session SM13. Stability and instability of Materials and Structures
  at the 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, ICTAM2024, Daegu, Korea, August 25-30, 2024.

• F. Dal Corso co-chairman of the Thematic Session "FS08. Education in Mechanics" at the 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, ICTAM2024, Daegu, Korea, August 25-30, 2024.

• D.B. supporting the 3rd International Workshop on Perspectives on Multiphase Fluid Dynamics, Continuum Mechanics and Hyperbolic Balance Laws
  April 22-26, 2024, Trento, Italy.



Program

• D.B. in the Scientific Committee for Euromech Colloquium 630 Nonlinear elasticity: Modelling of Milti-Physics and applications
  Edinburgh, UK, March 25-28, 2024.

• D.B., Luca Deseri and Diego Misseroni Chairmen and organizers of the workshop: Origami Metamaterials and Architected Matertials for Innovative Engineering Solutions.
  Trento, January 16, 2024


Book of abstracts

• D.B. and Gennady Mishuris Chairmen and organizers of the workshop: Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids and Structures: Scientific challenges and methodologies for future societal development.
  Aberystwyth, UK, June 7–9, 2023



Program
Book of abstracts

• D.B. in the International Scientific Committee of the 3rd International Conference on Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures
  Texas A&M University, College Station, Austin, August, 9-11, 2023.

• D.B. in the International Scientific Committee of the Ninth International Conference on Thin-walled Structures
  Sydney November, 29 December 1, 2023.

OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

• Teaching Dynamics of Structures through experiments
  Academic year 2023-2024
  F. Dal Corso and D. Misseroni
  
  

• Materiali che assorbono e rilasciano energia - Il progetto ERC AdG Beyond
  Pensa Trasversale Percorso di orientamento all'Università - December , 2023 - Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Trento.
  D. Bigoni
  

• Elasticità impossibile - Il progetto ERC AdG Beyond elasticity
  La Notte della Ricerca, September 29, 2023 - MUSE - Museo delle Scienze, Trento.
  D. Bigoni
  
  

• Le strutture dell'uomo e della natura per resistere ai carichi
  August 31, 2023 - Dolomiti Summer School 2023, Belluno (Italy)
  F. Dal Corso
  

• Open Mike - Davide Bigoni talks about his ERC AdG project
  10 March 2023 - Portland Theatre in Trento
  D. Bigoni
  
  
  
  
  • The Open Mike event (Complete version)
    
    

• Teaching Solid and Structural Mechanics in Italy
  Academic year 2022-2023
  D. Bigoni
  
  

• A memory of the Theoretical Biomechanics course
  Academic year 2022-2023
  D. Bigoni
  
  

• December 20, 2022 University of Trento, for the course "Structural Mechanics"
  "Origami Engineering".
  D. Misseroni

• December 19, 2022 University of Trento, for the course "Solid and Structural Mechanics"
  "La passione per le strutture, elasticità ed oltre".
  D. Bigoni

• December 19, 2022 University of Trento, for the course "Structural Mechanics"
  "Dynamics of architected materials".
  D. Misseroni

• Season's greetings 2023

• Season's greetings 2022

• December 6, 2022 University of Trento, for the course "Theoretical Biomechanics"
  "Biomechanics, fracture, materials and beyond".
  D. Bigoni

• Highlights and interviews on newspapers and websites


• Article (in Italian) in the web-journal of the University of Trento Come il guardiano del faro (29^th february 2024).


• Interview (in Italian) in the national scientific newscast "TGR Leonardo" (5^th may 2023).
  



• Article (in Italian) in the local newspaper "Il Dolomiti" Origami e lego per produrre materiali con proprietà fisiche estreme (10^th january 2023).


• Highlight (in Italian) in the University of Trento web magazine A Diego Misseroni conferito il premio 2022 EML Young Investigator Award (28^th november 2022).


• Article (in Italian) in the web-journal of the University of Trento L'elasticità impossibile (17^th october 2022).


• Highlight (in Italian) in the Facebook page of Multi-Scale Analysis of Material (29^th april 2022).


• Article (in Italian) in the web-journal "L'Adige" (27^th april 2022).


• Article (in Italian) in the local newspaper "L'Adige" (27^th april 2022).


• Article (in Italian) in the local newspaper "Corriere del Trentino" (27^th april 2022).


• Highlight (in Italian) in the web-journal of the University of Trento L'Europa premia ancora l'Università di Trento (26^th april 2022).


• Article (in Italian) in the University of Trento newspaper (26^th april 2022).

PLENARY LECTURES

• Plenary speaker at the congress Modelling, partial differential equations analysis and computational mathematics in material sciences, Prague, September 23-28, 2024
  "TBA"
  Bigoni D.
  
  

• Plenary speaker at the 19th European Mechanics of Materials Conference, Madrid, May 29-31, 2024
  "Architected materials with tuned instabilities break the wall of hyperelasticity"
  Bigoni D.
  
  

• Opening Lecture at the Euromech Colloquium 633 nonlinear Metamaterials and Smart Structures, Lyon, May 27-29, 2024
  "Designing solids from structures"
  Bigoni D.
  
  

• Opening Lecture at the XXIII Convegno GIMC X Convegno GMA II Convegno GBMA, Reggio Calabria, July 12-14, 2023
  "Solids from Structures"
  Bigoni D.
  
  

• Plenary speaker at 13th International Congress on Mechanics HSTAM2022, Patras, Greece, August 24-27, 2022
  "Beyond hyper-elasticity: architected materials without a strain potential"
  Bigoni D.
  
  

KEYNOTE LECTURES

• 14th International Conference on Metamaterials, Photonic Crystals and Plasmonics, Toyama, Japan, July 16-24, 2024 (META 2024)
  "Metamaterials with architected instabilities"
  Bigoni D.
  
  

• Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids and Structures: Scientific challenges and methodologies for future societal development, Aberystwyth, UK, June 7–9, 2023
  "Flutter instability & oscillatory instabilities in piecewise-smooth elastic structures"
  Bigoni D.
  
  

• 11th European Solid Mechanics Conference, Galway, Ireland, July 4th to 8th, 2022 (ESMC 2022)
  "Beyond hyper-elasticity: flutter in elastic media"
  Bigoni D.
  
  

• Multiscale Innovative Materials and Structures, Cetara, Italy, September 28-29, 2022
  "Flutter instability and hyperelasticity"
  Bigoni D.
  
  

WORKSHOPS

• 3rd International Workshop on Perspectives on Multiphase Fluid Dynamics, Continuum Mechanics and Hyperbolic Balance Laws, ProHyp 2024, Trento, April 22-26, 2024
  
  • "Instabilities in structures and their link to solids"
    Bigoni D.
  • "Surface/interface effects in elastic solids with inhomogeneities and liquid inclusions"
    Mogilevskaya S.
  
  

• Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids and Structures: Scientific challenges and methodologies for future societal development, Aberystwyth, Wales, UK, June 7–9, 2023
  
  • "Flutter instability & oscillatory instabilities in piecewise-smooth elastic structures"
    Bigoni D.
  • "Elastic solids moving along frictionless constraints via configurational forces"
    Amato M., Dal Corso F., Bigoni D.
  • "Effects of different loadings on bifurcation of a coated elastic disk"
    Gaibotti G., Mogilevskaya S., Piccolroaz A., Bigoni D.
  
  

CONFERENCES

• Euromech Colloquium 630, Nonlinear Elasticity: Modelling of multi-physics and applications, Edinburgh, March 25-28 2024
  "Solids from structures with architected instabilities"
  Bigoni D.

• International Lecture on "Mechanics and Physics of Advanced Materials and Structures", Tianjin University, China, March 11, 2024
  "Flutter instability in structures and in architected solids to break the wall of hyperelasticity"
  Bigoni D.

• 2023 IUTAM Symposium on Soft Matter Mechanics, Ningbo, China, December 5-8
  "Architected instabilities in solids obtained from structures"
  Bigoni D.

• Italian Association of Aeronautics and Astronautics (A.I.D.A.A.) XXVII International Congress, Padua, Italy, September 4–7, 2023
  • "Flutter instability in elastic structures"
    Bigoni D., Dal Corso F., Piccolroaz A., Misseroni D., Noselli G.
  
  
  • "Reprogrammable Frustration and Tunable mechanical properties in Origami Metamaterials"
    Misseroni D., Pratapa P.P., Liu K., Paulino G.H.
  
  
  • "Recent results on variable-length structures: actuation and dynamic stabilization"
    Dal Corso F., Koutsogiannakis P., Misseroni D., Bigoni D.

• Dal Corso, F. (2023)
  "Motion of a variable length elastic system made periodic or quasi-periodic through configurational forces".
  IUTAM Symposium on Nonlinear dynamics for design of mechanical systems across different length/time scales, July 31 - August 4, 2023, Tsukuba, Japan.
  In addition to the oral presentation, appearing also as video within the "Gallery of Nonlinear Dynamics" (awarded as best video).

• Evento Finale Progetto 2018-2022 Dipartimento di Eccellenza DICAM, Trento, November 25, 2022
  "Origami metamaterial with reprogrammable mechanical properties"
  Misseroni D.

• Giornate Signorini, Perugia, November 4-5, 2022 (ESMC 2022)
  "Shear band instabilities and architected materials"
  Bigoni D.

• 13th International Congress on Mechanics HSTAM2022, Patras, Greece, August 24-27, 2022
  "Bifurcation of the extensible elastica constrained by a curved profile"
  Koutsogiannakis, P., Dal Corso F. and Bigoni D.

• 11th European Solid Mechanics Conference, Galway, Ireland, July 4th to 8th, 2022 (ESMC 2022)
  "Poisson's ratio experiments on deployable origami metamaterials"
  Misseroni D.

SEMINARS

• March 1, 2024, Università IUAV di Venezia
  "Three different loadings for an elastic disk, constrained on the boundary with an isoperimetric Cosserat coating"
  D. Bigoni

• February 9, 2024, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy
  "Different ways of loading an elastic disk, constrained on the boundary with an isoperimetric Cosserat coating"
  D. Bigoni

• December 5, 2023, Zhejiang University, China
  "Flutter and oscillatory instabilities in elastic structures"
  "Stone beams and the Fujian megalithic bridges"
  D. Bigoni

• December 4, 2023, Ningbo University, China
  "Flutter and oscillatory instabilities in elastic structures"
  "Stone beams and the Fujian megalithic bridges"
  D. Bigoni

• "Snapping, locomotion, bifurcation, and restabilization of soft elastic structures".
  Department of Physical Sciences, Ritsumeikan University - Kusatsu, Shiga (JP), August 10, 2023.
  F. Dal Corso

• "Beyond local elastic models to describe the mechanics of extreme lattice structures".
  Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Kyoto University - Kyoto (JP), August 9, 2023.
  F. Dal Corso

• "Locomotion and stabilization of soft elastic structures under frictionless configurational constraints".
  Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Kyoto University - Kyoto (JP), August 8, 2023.
  F. Dal Corso

• "Snapping and self-tunable nonlinear elastic systems towards energy harvesting applications".
  Department of Mechanical and System Engineering, Kyoto Institute of Technology - Kyoto (JP), August 7, 2023.
  F. Dal Corso

• "Bifurcation, catastrophic instabilities, and restabilization of soft structures subject to movable and configurational constraints".
  Department of Mechanical Engineering, Keio University - Yokohama (JP), July 28, 2023.
  F. Dal Corso

• "How to snap and to (quasi-statically and dynamically) stabilize extremely deformable structures via movable constraints".
  Faculty of Science, Ochanomizu University - Tokyo (JP), July 27, 2023.
  F. Dal Corso

• May 24, 2023, NTUA Athens (Greece)
  "Planar hexagonal lattices versus strain gradient elasticity"
  F. Dal Corso

• May 18, 2023, IUAV Venezia
  "Storie di strutture e di scienza delle costruzioni"
  D. Bigoni

• May 12, 2023, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy
  "Strange oscillatory instabilities in elastic structures"
  D. Bigoni

• May 11, 2023, Department of Engineering "Enzo Ferrari" of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
  "The strange case of a piecewise smooth elastic structure"
  D. Bigoni

• May 3, 2023, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
  "Reprogrammable Frustration and Tunable Auxeticity in Origami Metamaterials"
  D. Misseroni

• April 7, 2023, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, USA
  "Cloaking & invisibility in plates and lattice structures"
  D. Misseroni

• March 28, 2023, University of Napoli, Napoli, Italy
  "Continuavano a chiamarla Scienza delle Costruzioni"
  D. Bigoni

• March 27, 2023, University of Napoli, Napoli, Italy
  "Careful with That Structure, Eugene"
  D. Bigoni

• March 6, 2023, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy
  "To flutter, or not to flutter, that is the question (for an elastic structure)"
  D. Bigoni

• November 11, 2022, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
  "Implementing instabilities inside architected materials"
  D. Bigoni

• November 2, 2022, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy
  "Material instabilities for architected materials"
  D. Bigoni

• July 19, 2022, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy
  "The mechanics of shear bands"
  D. Bigoni

TRAINING ACTIVITIES

COURSES

• PhD Course in "Variational principles in structural mechanics, numerical solution strategies and advanced topics", given by Dr. Panagiotis Koutsogiannakis (University of Trento) at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, June 3-6, 2024, Trento.

• PhD Course in "Generalized continua as a means to model metamaterials", given by Dr. Gianluca Rizzi (Technical University Dortmund) at the Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, April 8-10, 2024, Trento.

• Summerschool in "Advanced Computational Mechanics and Constituitive modeling of advanced materials", Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, July 10-21, 2023, Trento.

• PhD Course in "Waves in Metamaterials and Periodic Structures", Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, April 12-14, 2023, Trento.

• 6-hours course "Elasticity and material instability", SISSA, June 20-22, 2022, Trieste.

SEMINARS given at University of Trento by visiting scientists

• May 13, 2024 Alfio Grillo (Politecnico di Torino)
  "Growth mechanics and mechanics of nonholonomic systems".

• May 3, 2024 Federico Bosi (University College London and University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland)
  "The strength of ultralightweight solids: from membranes to architected materials".

• May 2, 2024 Andrea Nobili (Università di Modena)
  "The role of the support stiffness in straight cutting of a thin sheet".

• May 2, 2024 Americo Cunha Jr (Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
  "Nonlinear Dynamics of Vibratory Energy Harvesting Systems".

• November 17, 2023 Roque Luiz da Silva Pitangueira (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
  "Complementary approaches for modeling quasi-brittle media".

• August 29, 2023 Costanza Armanini (New York University at Abu Dhabi, EAU)
  "Bio-inspired soft robotics for underwater propulsion".

• July 28, 2023 Antonio Papangelo (Politecnico di Bari e Hamburg University of Technology)
  "Loading history dependence of tackiness in adhesive soft viscoelastic contacts".

• July 4, 2023 Angelo Carini (University of Brescia)
  "Sulla stabilità dinamica di strutture soggette a forze non conservative".

• May 10, 2023 Antonio Palermo (University of Bologna)
  "Modeling strategies for nonlinear, time-modulated, and quasi-periodic elastic metasurfaces".

• May 5, 2023 Antonella Cecchi (IUAV, Venezia)
  "Muratura: realtà e simulazione sperimentale, teoria e modelli numerici".

• May 2, 2023 Gennady Mishuris (Aberystwyth University)
  "Slepyan’s method for the study of dynamic fracture in metamaterials".

• April 18, 2023 Andrea Nobili (University of Modena)
  "Stroh/Hamiltonian formulation for complex media".

• April 17, 2023 Dr. Harold Berjamin (University of Galway)
  "Recent developments on the propagation of mechanical waves in soft solids".

• March 8, 2023 Prof. Alberto Corigliano (Politecnico di Milano)
  "MetaMEMS: a new trend in Microsystems technology".

• February 28, 2023 Prof. Giovanni Zanzotto (Università di Padova)
  "Bursty deformation of crys talline materials: some experimental, empirical, and modelling results".

• February 28, 2023 Prof. Paolo Biscari (Politecnico di Milano)
  "Elasticity and plasticity in crystalline hyperelastic materials".

• February 24, 2023 Prof. Marco Gaiani (Università di Bologna)
  "Beyond the flat-matte paradigm and toward a new character of the visual knowledge: a path exploiting Leonardo da Vinci and Beato Angelico".

• November 18, 2022 Prof. Lorenzo Bardella (Università di Brescia)
  "Electro chemo-poro mechanics of ionic polymer metal composites: Theory and numerics".

• October 6, 2022 Prof. Gennady Mishuris (Aberystwyth University, UK)
  "How Hydraulic Fracture is paying back to Fracture Mechanics".

POSTERS

• "Dead, follower, and pressure loads: surface waves and compressive vs. tensile bifurcations"
  (Poster presentation) Bigoni D., Ivan G.C., Springhetti, R.

Contacts Prof. Davide Bigoni University of Trento, via Mesiano, 77 I-38123 Trento (Italy) E-mail: davide.bigoni@unitn.it

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