Academic Year:
2017-2018
Period:
May-June
Duration:
20 h
Description:
- Introduction to the physics and applications of active materials: polymers, gels, natural and biological tissues
- A mechanical framework for active materials: metric description of elasticity with active strains
- Preliminaries: concepts and tools from three-dimensional differential geometry and differential geometry of surfaces
- Compatibility of active strains
- Dimension reduction: derivation of a Koiter-like plate theory from 3D elasticity with acrive strains
- Applications to shape morphing
- Non-linear poroelasticity: a coupled theory for swelling gels
- Preliminaries: Thermodynamics and constitutive equations: dissipation inequality and Coleman-Noll procedure
- Neo-Hookean elasticity and mixing energy for polymer solutions (Flory-Rehner theory)
- Applications to soft actuators: swelling-induced bifurcations
Location: On Wednesday 6/6 the class will be held in A-005.
Research Group:
Location:
A-133