Davide Bigoni's blog

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?

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