Recently, Politecnico di Milano in Italy has attempted to force all teaching at Master level in English. This has been stopped by some academics who went to different levels of administrative courts, and recently there was a prononciation of the Supreme Court. The matter is not settled yet, but you can find an account of this with various links here.
See here.
The top italian engineer Davide Bigoni gets his 4th cover in Proc. Roy. Soc. A in just 18 months
See here.
Maybe because I am proud of Betti's theorem being italian, I am curious about this big emphasys on systems violating it. They may "open avenues for energy absorption, conversion and harvesting, soft robotics, prosthetics and optomechanics".... ? I'd be curious to hear some comments. Anyway, the last author Andrea Alu is anyway italian like Betti.
Dear Colleague,
We are pleased to announce the 10th European Solid Mechanics Conference – ESMC 2018, which will be held in Bologna (Italy) during July 2-6, 2018.
The Conference is organized by the University of Trento and the University of Bologna.
The stress concentration induced by fretting fatigue was studied with a simple "Crack Analogue" model (CA) by the MIT group of Suresh in the late 1990's, which was then "improved" by the present author to take into account simply both contact loads and bulk stresses loads, and even the case of finite stress concentration in the so-called "Crack Like Notch Analogue" (CLNA) model.
Who is interested in non-linear dynamics of friction may find this nice.
Volume 44, March 2017, Pages 108–119
Available online 28 December 2016
