Abstract booklet

Wednesday 21st

8:30-9:00 Registration and opening

9:00-10:00 Antonio DESIMONE (Keynote lecture)

Morphing and shape control, with applications to biological and bio-inspired motility

10:00-10:30 Eoin MCEVOY

Mechanobiology of stress-dependent cell and tumour growth

10:30-11:00 Alexander ERLICH

Mechanical feedback and incompatibility in size regulation

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:00 Marco PENSALFINI

Modeling the contribution of intermediate filaments to load bearing in stretched epithelia

12:00-12:30 Souhayl SADIK

Nonlinear Anisotropic Viscoelasticity

12:30-13:00 Ornella MATTEI

Bounds on the time response of viscoelastic composites

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-15:00 Vikram DESHPANDE (Keynote lecture)

3D observations drive a new paradigm in rubber elasticity

15:00-15:30 Stavros GAITANAROS

Nonlinear mechanics of architected materials

15:30-16:00 Martin HORÁK

Beam lattice metamaterials with internal contact

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

16:30-17:00 Harold BERJAMIN

The dynamics of soft magnetoelastic composites

17:00-17:30 Ajeet KUMAR

A Kirchhoff-like theory for slender electroactive rods incorporating also the electric free space energy

17:30-18:00 Siddharta H. OMMI

Modelling of drying-induced complex fracture initiation in granular geomaterials

Thursday 22nd 

09:00-10:00 Michel JABBOUR (Keynote lecture)

Crystal Growth: Surface Evolution and Stability

10:00-10:30 Marco SALVALAGLIO

Mesoscale modeling of lattice deformation and defects via the phase field crystal model

10:30-11:00 Laurent GUIN

Effect of stress on the electrochemical response of silicon electrodes

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

11:30-12:00 Emanuela BOSCO

A computational model to predict the chemo-mechanical degradation of historical paintings

12:00-12:30 Alessandro LERONNI

Osmotic pressure: how to account for it in electrochemo-mechanical theories?

12:30-13:00 Barbora BENESOVA

Dimensional reduction and interpenetrability

13:00-14:00 Lunch

14:00-14:30 Noy COHEN

Inducing twist in incompatible tubes

14:30-15:00 Pavel GALICH

Phononic crystals inspired by the wallpaper groups

15:00-15:30 Marco PICCHI SCARDAONI

Bending of tape spring devices