Solid and Structural Mechanics

The group

The scientific activity of the group concerns all classical and innovative themes of the mechanics of solids, materials, and structures. More specifically, the group develops and disseminates innovative scientific tools for the analysis and design of solids and structures with application to civil, mechanical, electrical, and biomedical engineering, to achitecture, and to other applied sciences. This broad spectrum of interests requires the constitutive modelling of materials subject to multi-phisical stimuli.

Research activity

mechanical behaviour of composite materials and structures,
small-scale plasticity of polycrystalline metals, with focus on size effects,
constitutive modelling of geomaterials,
micromechanics of syntactic foams,
multiphysical behaviour of soft electroactive polymers for actuation and sensing; rack propagation in brittle materials,
multi-filed asymptotic homogenisation techniques,
variational formulations for physical initial-boundary value problems,
viscoelastoplasticity of termoset polymers, with focus on epoxy resins,
constitutive modelling of metals subject to finite deformations,
analytical solutions for drawing processes,
chaotic behaviour of elastic-plastic structures.

keywords

Mechanics of structures,
Mechanics of fracture,
Composite materials;
Variational principles of continuum physics,
Electrochemistry,
Continuum multiphysics,
Mechanics of solids,
Mechanics of materials,
Computational mechanics,
Plasticity theory.

ERC sectors

PE8_3 - Civil engineering, architecture, maritime/hydraulic engineering, geotechnics, waste treatment
PE8_4 - Computational engineering
PE8_8 - Materials engineering (metals, ceramics, polymers, composites, etc.)
PE8_6 - Energy processes engineering
PE7_4 - (Micro and nano) systems engineering.

People

Lorenzo Bardella
Angelo Carini
Francesca Fantoni
Andrea Panteghini

Websites

Link t o the website of the group of Solid and Structural Mechanics
Link to the webpage of the group on the site expertise.unibs.it