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Toward new scaling laws for wrinkling in biologically relevant fiber-reinforced bilayers
A. Mirandola, A. Cutolo, A. R. Carotenuto +4
Wrinkling, creasing and folding are frequent phenomena encountered in biological and man-made bilayers made by thin films bonded to thicker and softer substrates often containing f…
Towards predicting shear-banding instabilities in lipid monolayers
A. R. Carotenuto, A. Gaffney, K. Y. C. Lee +3
Langmuir monolayers are advantageous systems used to investigate how lipid membranes get involved in the physiology of many living structures, such as collapse phenomena in alveola…
Distal and non-symmetrical crack nucleation in delamination of plates via dimensionally-reduced peridynamics
Riccardo Cavuoto, Arsenio Cutolo, Kaushik Dayal +2
Exploiting the framework of peridynamics, a dimensionally-reduced plate formulation is developed that allows for the through-thickness nucleation and growth of fracture surfaces, e…
Growth of a flexible fibre in a deformable ring
Arsenio Cutolo, Massimiliano Fraldi, Gaetano Napoli +1
We study the equilibrium configurations related to the growth of an elastic fibre in a confining flexible ring. This system represents a paradigm for a variety of biological, medic…
Toughening and mechanosensing in bone: a perfectly balanced mechanism based on competing stresses
M. Fraldi, A. Cutolo, A. R. Carotenuto +3
Bone is a stiff and though, hierarchical and continuously evolving material that optimizes its structure to respond to mechanical stimuli, which also govern growth and remodeling p…
Topologically engineered 3D printed architectures with superior mechanical strength
R. S. Ambekar, B. Kushwaha, P. Sharma +4
Materials that are lightweight yet exhibit superior mechanical properties are of compelling importance for several technological applications that range from aircrafts to household…
Unveiling a new shear stress transfer mechanism in composites with helically wound hierarchical fibres
A. Cutolo, A. R. Carotenuto, S. Palumbo +3
The mechanical performance of reinforced composites is strongly influenced at different scales by the stress transferred at the matrix-fibre interfaces and at any surface where mat…
Mechanobiology predicts raft formations triggered by ligand-receptor activity across the cell membrane
A. R. Carotenuto, L. Lunghi, V. Piccolo +6
Clustering of ligand-binding receptors of different types on thickened isles of the cell membrane, namely lipid rafts, is an experimentally observed phenomenon. Although its influe…
Disarrangements and instabilities in 1D hyperelasticity
S. Palumbo, L. Deseri, D. R. Owen +1
In the present work, the overall nonlinear elastic behavior of a 1D multi-modular structure incorporating possible imperfections at the discrete (micro-scale) level, is derived wit…
Buckling Soft Tensegrities: Fickle Elasticity and Configurational Switching in Living Cells
Massimiliano Fraldi, Stefania Palumbo, Angelo Rosario Carotenuto +3
Tensegrity structures are special architectures made by floating compressed struts kept together by a continuous system of tensed cables. The multiplicity of shapes that tensegrity…