Beyond hyperelasticity: a virgin land of extreme materials


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AWARDS
  • Diego Misseroni wins the 2025 SES Huajian Gao Young Investigator Medal from the Society of Engineering Science for his contributions to the fundamental understanding of the mechanical behavior of architected metamaterials and origami structures by innovative experimental realizations leading to new insights and theoretical findings.
  • July 2024, Davide Bigoni elected fellow of the Accademia di Ingegneria e Tecnologia 'ITATEC'.
  • 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.
  • 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.

      
  • Matteo Gaibotti 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".

      

  • Diego Misseroni 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




PHD THESES

CONGRESS ORGANIZATION
  • F. Dal Corso co-organizer of the mini-symposium "Mechanics and Physics of Structures" within the ESMC2025 - 12th European Solids Mechanics Conference, July 7-11, 2025, Lyon (France).
  • D.B. member of the International Advisory Board (IAB) of the 43rd Solid Mechanics Conference (SolMech 2024), Wrocław, Poland, on 16-18 September 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.
  • F. Dal Corso co-chairman of the Mini-Symposium "MS-7 Stability and dynamics of structures" at the 3rd International Conference on Nonlinear Solid Mechanics, ICoNSoM 2024, Cagliari (Italy), June 11-14, 2024.


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

  • Le strutture dell'uomo e della natura per resistere ai carichi
    August 31, 2023 - Dolomiti Summer School 2023, Belluno (Italy)
    F. Dal Corso
  • 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
  • December 6, 2022 University of Trento, for the course "Theoretical Biomechanics"
    "Biomechanics, fracture, materials and beyond".
    D. Bigoni
PLENARY LECTURES
  • Opening Lecture at the Euromech Colloquium 633 nonlinear Metamaterials and Smart Structures, Lyon, May 27-29, 2024
    "Designing solids from structures"
    Bigoni D.

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


WORKSHOPS
  • International Workshop on Convergence Engineering 2024, Hanyang University, Seoul, August 22, 2024
    "New actuation principles in soft robotics: novel mechanisms of soft elastic structures and solids"
    Dal Corso F.
  • 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
  • ICTAM2024 - 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Daegu, Korea, August 25-30, 2024
    • "Implementing flutter instability in a metamaterial"
      Bigoni D.
    • "Active learning for dynamics of structures"
      Dal Corso F., Kousogiannakis P., Misseroni D., Bigoni D.
    • "Buckling of hyperelastic solids due to transverse compression by flat, rigid and frictionless punches"
      Dal Corso F., Amato M., Bigoni D.
  • ICoNSoM2024, 3rd International Conference on Nonlinear Solid Mechanics, Cagliari (Italy), June 11-14, 2024.
    • "Instability and Dynamic Ejection from Configurational sliding forces"
      Dal Corso F., D'Amato M., Bigoni D.
    • "On the role of damping in the dynamics of variable-length beams"
      Migliaccio G., Kousogiannakis P., D'Annibale F., Dal Corso F.
  • 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).
  • 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
  • August 23, 2024, Department of Material Science & Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
    "Frictionless contact mechanics and configurational forces"
    F. Dal Corso
  • August 21, 2024, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
    "Actuation and self-tuning mechanisms for soft structures"
    F. Dal Corso
  • July 10, 2024, University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy
    "The Elastica sling, the self-tuning dancing rod, and the actuation of soft elastic solids by partial transverse compression from configurational mechanics"
    F. Dal Corso
  • "Configurational sliding forces from frictionless constraints".
    Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Cagliari, Cagliari (Italy), June 10, 2024.
    F. Dal Corso
  • "Solids and structures under frictionless constraints".
    Dept. of Architecture & Architectural Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto (JP), May 13, 2024.
    F. Dal Corso
  • "Elastica for novel mechanical applications".
    Graduate School of Natural Science & Technology, Kanazawa University, Kanazawa (JP), May 10, 2024.
    F. Dal Corso
  • "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 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
  • July 19, 2022, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy
    "The mechanics of shear bands"
    D. Bigoni



TRAINING ACTIVITIES

COURSES
  • 6h lectures on "Perturbation methods for dynamics and stability of structures" given by Prof. Francesco Dal Corso within the PhD Course "Perturbation methods: theory and applications (River Morphodynamics and Structural Mechanics)", Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, University of Trento, June 17-21, 2024, Trento.
  • Lecture on "Configurational forces in structural mechanics", given by Prof. Francesco Dal Corso to the Master Students in Mechanical Engineering of the Graduate School of Engineering Science, Osaka University, May 20, 2024, Osaka (JP).


SEMINARS given at University of Trento by visiting scientists
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Contacts

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


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