In Mechanics, material properties are most often regarded as being given, and based on
this, many technical solutions are usually conceived and constructed. However, nowadays …

This review paper intends to gather and organize a series of works which discuss the
possibility of exploiting the mechanical properties of distributed arrays of piezoelectric …

In order to design the microstructure of metamaterials showing high toughness in extension
(property to be shared with muscles), it has been recently proposed (Dell'Isola et al. in Z …

In this paper, we determine numerically a large class of equilibrium configurations of an
elastic two-dimensional continuous pantographic sheet in three-dimensional deformation …

We present a homogenized model for the analysis of a 2D continuum with two straight
families of inextensible fibres embedded in it. The kinematics of the continuum is analyzed …

Recently it has been proposed the study of a new class of bidimensional metamaterials,
which have been called extensible pantographic sheets. Such bidimensional continua are …

The theoretical results relevant to the vibration modes of Timoshenko beams are here used
as benchmarks for assessing the correctness of the numerical values provided by several …

The paper proposes an unitary strategy for the static analysis of general cable nets under
conservative loads. A form-finding is first performed in order to initialize the successive non …

In this paper, a novel evolution equation for capillaries growth is proposed. An essential
ingredient is given by the consideration of nutrient supply, for which a novel constitutive …

This paper presents a cable-net tension analysis method during the deployment of
deployable antennas. First, the dynamic model of a deployable antenna is established, and …