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Deadline for the PhD position on my ERC grant

https://imechanica.org/node/26103

is in 15 days:

August 25, 2022, hrs. 4.00 PM (Italian time)

1 Ph.D. position (36 months) within the research activity relative to my ERC AdG Grant "Beyond" will be funded by and available at the University of Trento (Italy). The student will be supervised by me and my collaborators Francesco Dal Corso, Diego Misseroni, Andrea Piccolroaz, and Roberta Springhetti. See also the PDF attached.

How to provide a structure with a force lying on a fixed line?
We provide the answer to this question in our paper: Bigoni and Misseroni (2019) Structures loaded with a force acting along a fixed straight line, or the “Reut’s column problem”.
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.
Enjoy watching our video below (would you have trouble playing video on YouTube, click here to watch it).

How a mass falls when attached to a flexible element with varying length?
We provide the answer to this question in our paper: Armanini, Dal Corso, Misseroni, Bigoni (2019) Configurational forces and nonlinear structural dynamics.
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids.
Enjoy watching our video below (would you have trouble playing video on YouTube, click here to watch it).

How can an elastic rod model snake motion?

An elastic rod constrained in a perfectly smooth and rigid channel can move through a release of elastic energy and the development of a configurational force.

Enjoy the snaking elastic rod at http://www.ing.unitn.it/~bigoni/snake.html

Lecturers:

Davide Bigoni - Università di Trento, Italy

Olivier Doaré - ENSTA ParisTech, France

Oleg Kirillov - Russian Academy of Sciences, Steklov Mathematical Institute, Moscow, Russia

What should be expected when an elastic rod is forced to slip inside a sliding sleeve and against an obstacle?

After buckling, configurational forces play a strong role, so that a force reversal is observed!

Enjoy the injection of an elastic rod at http://www.ing.unitn.it/~bigoni/injection.html

Webpage: http://events.unitn.it/en/cermodel2015

Extended deadline for 1 page-abstract submission: March 15, 2015

Can a torque induce longitudinal motion of an elastic rod?

See the explanation and an example of use of the 'torsional gun' at http://www.ing.unitn.it/~bigoni/torsional_locomotion.html

If you're having trouble playing videos on YouTube, click here to watch it.

Do singular stress fields exist close to rigid corners?

See the photoelastic investigation at http://www.ing.unitn.it/~bigoni/stiffener.html

Please, give a look to my research activity at http://www.ing.unitn.it/~bigoni and to my group at http://ssmg.unitn.it

If you are strongly motivated to work with a very active group in Solid Mechanics, we have a PhD position (3 years) available from November 2014, but the deadline for application is June 30, 2014!

The position is on a EU grant and is addressed to numerical/theoretical modelling of ceramics.

For details on the application see the attachment.
 

Lecturers:

Basile Audoly - Université Pierre et Marie Curie and CNRS, Paris, France

Katia Bertoldi - University of Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA

Davide Bigoni - Università di Trento, Italy

Alain Goriely - University of Oxford, UK

Can buckling and instability of a structure be affected by Eshelby forces?  

We provide a positive answer to this question, see http://www.ing.unitn.it/~bigoni/blade.html

Do Eshelby forces exist in elastic structures?

We provide a positive answer to this question, see http://www.ing.unitn.it/~bigoni/eshelbylikeforce.html

Within the IAPP research poject INTERCER2 (http://intercer2.unitn.it/) coordinated by me, the Institute of Mathematics and Physics at Aberystwyth University (Research unit coordinator: Prof. Gennady Mishuris) is seeking to appoint a research lecturer in mathematical modelling. The successful candidate will have had research experience in the respective areas of Applied Mathematics and possess a PhD having less then 10 years experience. This is a two year fixed term post.

Please, give a look to my research activity at: http://www.ing.unitn.it/~bigoni/

If you are strongly motivated to work with a very active group (http://ssmg.unitn.it) in Solid Mechanics, we have a post-doc position for 2 years available not before October 2012.

The position is on a EU grant (http://intercer2.unitn.it/) and is addressed to constitutive/numerical/theoretical modelling of ceramics.

For details on the application see: