Programme

Wednesday 22nd

• 14:00-14:30, Registration and opening
• 14:30-15:30, Eliot FRIED (Keynote lecture)
  • Dimensionally reduced energy and equilibrium conditions for an isometrically deformed material surface
• 15:30-16:05, Isaac CHENCHIAH
  • Connectivity, Rigidity and Morphoelasticity
• 16:05-16:30 Coffee break
• 16:30-17:05, Luigi VERGORI
  • Bending, unbending and eversion wrinkles and creases
• 17:05-17:40, Marcelo DIAS
• Kirigami actuators
• 17:40-18:15, Dimitris SFYRIS
• Mathematical modeling of the nonlinear mechanical response of graphene monolayers
• 18:30 Welcome cocktail @ Oppio Caffè

Thursday 23rd

• 09:30-10:30, Lev TRUSKINOVSKY (Keynote lecture)
  • Muscles as active materials
• 10:30-11:05, Kostas DANAS
• Revisiting variational principles in magnetorheological elastomers and homogenization
• 11:05-11:30 Coffee break
• 11:30-12:05, Stephan RUDYKH
• Soft composite materials: from instabilities to electro- and magneto-mechanical coupling
• 12:05-12:40, Giuliano LAZZARONI
• Linearisation of multiwell energies
• 12:40-14:30 Break
• 14:30-15:05, Giulio GIUSTERI
• Rheological models for complex materials
• 15:05-15:40, Diego MISSERONI
• Flutter and divergence instability in continuous structures: experimental and numerical proof
• 15:40-16:10 Coffee break
• 16:10-16:45, Fadi ALDAKHEEL
• On the thermomechanical coupling in finite strain gradient plasticity theory
• 16:45-17:20, Pietro CARRARA
  • Determination of real concrete mesostructures from CT scan images using contrast enhancers
• 18:00-19:45 Journey through ancient Rome (meeting at Main Entrance)
• 20:00- Conference dinner

Friday 24th

• 09:30-10:30, Giuseppe SACCOMANDI (Keynote lecture)
  • Waves in isotropic elastic solids
• 10:30-11:05, Kim PHAM
• Homogenization of locally resonant interface for wave propagation
• 11:05-11:30 Coffee break
• 11:30-12:05, Lorenzo MORINI
• One dimensional generalized Fibonacci structures: self-similar patterns and ultra-wide band gaps
• 12:05-12:40, Thomas Wick
• Modified Newton methods and mesh adaptativity for variational phase-field fracture propagation
• 12:40-13:15 Giuseppe ZURLO
• The mechanics of incompatible surface growth
• 13:15 Closing