What are the boundary conditions of an elastic rod at a clamp moving on a perfectly smooth and rigid circular profile?
The tangential shear at the clamp turns out to not be null!
See http://www.ing.unitn.it/~bigoni/multiple_bifurcations.html
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Deadline for 1 page-abstract submission: February 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
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Can configurational forces be exploited to design a new type of scale?
See the explanation and an example of use at http://www.ing.unitn.it/~bigoni/elasticscale.html
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Do singular stress fields exist close to rigid corners?
See the photoelastic investigation at http://www.ing.unitn.it/~bigoni/stiffener.html
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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.
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
