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Micro-displacement tensor
Giuseppe Zurlo, Lev Truskinovsky
We propose an extended kinematics of nominally elastic continuum solids allowing one to describe their mechanical interaction with micro-scale loading devices. The main new ingredi…
Programmable wrinkling for functionally-graded auxetic circular membranes
Sairam Pamulaparthi Venkata, Valentina Balbi, Michel Destradea +2
Materials with negative Poisson's ratio, also known as auxetic materials, display exotic properties such as expansion in all directions under uni-axial tension. For their unique pr…
Active chemo-mechanical solitons
Lev Truskinovsky, Giuseppe Zurlo
In many biological systems localized mechanical information is transmitted by mechanically neutral chemical signals. Typical examples include contraction waves in acto-myosin corte…
Local and Global Dynamics of a Functionally Graded Dielectric Elastomer Plate
Amin Alibakhshi, Sasan Rahmanian, Michel Destrade +1
We investigate the nonlinear vibrations of a functionally graded dielectric elastomer plate subjected to electromechanical loads. We focus on local and global dynamics in the syste…
Designing necks and wrinkles in inflated auxetic membranes
Sairam Pamulaparthi Venkata, Valentina Balbi, Michel Destrade +1
This article presents the potentiality of inflatable, functionally-graded auxetic membranes to produce wrinkles and necks. We obtain elastic instabilities at desired locations in a…
A discrete model for layered growth
Davide Renzi, Sonia Marfia, Giuseppe Tomassetti +1
In this work we present a discrete model that captures the fundamental properties of additively manufactured solids in a minimal setting. The model is based on simplified kinematic…
Mechanical behavior of multi-cellular spheroids under osmotic compression
Monika Dolega, Giuseppe Zurlo, Magali Le Goff +5
The internal and external mechanical environment plays an important role in tumorogenesis. As a proxy of an avascular early state tumor, we use multicellular spheroids, a composite…
Strain incompatibility as a source of residual stress in welding and additive manufacturing
Domenico Zaza, Michele Ciavarella, Giuseppe Zurlo
The accumulation of residual stress during welding and additive manufacturing is an important effect that can significantly anticipate the workpiece failure. In this work we exploi…
The Poynting effect
Giuseppe Zurlo, James Blackwell, Niall Colgan +1
An elastic cylinder subjected to torsion will always elongate.
Stable wrinkling in voltage and charge controlled dielectric membranes
G. Zurlo
Thin dielectric elastomers with compliant electrodes exhibit various types of instability under the action of electromechanical loading. Guided by the thermodynamically-based formu…
Nonlinear elasticity of incompatible surface growth
Lev Truskinovsky, Giuseppe Zurlo
Surface growth is a crucial component of many natural and artificial processes from cell proliferation to additive manufacturing. In elastic systems surface growth is usually accom…
Fine tuning the electro-mechanical response of dielectric elastomers
Giuseppe Zurlo, Michel Destrade, Tongqing Lu
We propose a protocol to model accurately the electromechanical behavior of dielectric elastomer membranes using experimental data of stress-stretch and voltage-stretch tests. We s…
Inelastic Surface Growth
Giuseppe Zurlo, Lev Truskinovsky
Inelastic surface growth associated with continuous creation of incompatibility on the boundary of an evolving body is behind a variety of natural and technological processes, incl…
Printing non-Euclidean solids
Giuseppe Zurlo, Lev Truskinovsky
Geometrically frustrated solids with non-Euclidean reference metric are ubiquitous in biology and are becoming increasingly relevant in technological applications. Often they acqui…
Catastrophic thinning of dielectric elastomers
Giuseppe Zurlo, Michel Destrade, Domenico DeTommasi +1
We provide a clear energetic insight into the catastrophic nature of the so-called creasing and pull-in instabilities in soft electro-active elastomers. These phenomena are ubiquit…
Compression-induced failure of electro-active polymeric thin films
Domenico De Tommasi, Giuseppe Puglisi, Giuseppe Zurlo
The insurgence of compression induces wrinkling in actuation devices based on EAPs thin films leading to a sudden decrease of performances up to failure. Based on the classical ten…