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Swimming Euglena respond to confinement with a behavioural change enabling effective crawling
Giovanni Noselli, Alfred Beran, Marino Arroyo +1
Some euglenids, a family of aquatic unicellular organisms, can develop highly concerted, large-amplitude peristaltic body deformations. This remarkable behaviour has been known for…
Smart helical structures inspired by the pellicle of euglenids
Giovanni Noselli, Marino Arroyo, Antonio DeSimone
This paper deals with a concept for a reconfigurable structure bio-inspired by the cell wall architecture of euglenids, a family of unicellular protists, and based on the relative…
Mechanics of axisymmetric sheets of interlocking and slidable rods
D. Riccobelli, G. Noselli, M. Arroyo +1
In this work, we study the mechanics of metamaterial sheets inspired by the pellicle of Euglenids. They are composed of interlocking elastic rods which can freely slide along their…
Spontaneous morphing of equibiaxially pre-stretched elastic bilayers: the role of sample geometry
Noè Caruso, Aleksandar Cvetković, Alessandro Lucantonio +2
An elastic bilayer, consisting of an equibiaxially pre-stretched sheet bonded to a stress-free one, spontaneously morphs into curved shapes in the absence of external loads or cons…
Flutter and divergence instability in the Pfluger column: experimental evidence of the Ziegler destabilization paradox
Davide Bigoni, Oleg N. Kirillov, Diego Misseroni +2
Flutter instability in elastic structures subject to follower load, the most important cases being the famous Beck's and Pfluger's columns (two elastic rods in a cantilever configu…
Concurrent factors determine toughening in the hydraulic fracture of poroelastic composites
Alessandro Lucantonio, Giovanni Noselli
Brittle materials fail catastrophically. In consequence of their limited flaw-tolerance, failure occurs by localized fracture and is typically a dynamic process. Recently, experime…