Dissemination & Communication

Publications

 
  1. H. Vijayakumaran, J.B. Russ, G.H. Paulino, M. Bessa (2024). Consistent machine learning for topology optimization with microstructure-dependent neural network material models. arXiv.
  2. A.Comitti, F.Bosi, (2024). Thermomechanical characterisation and plane stress linear viscoelastic modelling of ethylene-tetra-fluoroethylene foils. Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials, pp.1-28.

  3. A. Comitti, H. Vijayakumaran, MH. Nejabatmeimandi, L. Seixas, A. Cabello, D. Misseroni, M. Penasa, C. Paech, M. Bessa, A.C. Bown, F. Dal Corso, F. Bosi (2024). Ultralight Membrane Structures Towards a Sustainable Environment, Sustainable Structures and Buildings (pp.17-34). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

  4. I. Kuszczak, F.I. Azam, M.A. Bessa, P.J. Tan, F. Bosi (2023). Bayesian optimisation of hexagonal honeycomb metamaterial. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 64, 102078. 

  5. K. Suleman, F. Bosi (2023). Finite strain elastoplastic bulging of circular membranes. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 267, 112148.

  6. MH. Nejabatmeimandi, A. Comitti, L. Seixas, A. Cabello, A. Bown (2023).“Advancing the Design of Sustainable ETFE Membrane Structures: Insights from the Lighten Consortium Project.” Proceedings of the 7th International TensiNet Symposium 2023.

  7. R. Cavuoto, P. Lenarda, D. Misseroni, M. Paggi, D. Bigoni (2022). Failure through crack propagation in components with holes and notches: an experimental assessment of the phase field model. International Journal of Solids and Structures, 257, 111798.

  8. D.S. Moriello, F. Bosi, R. Torii, P.J. Tan (2022). In-plane pipe whip: Post-failure dynamic response. International Journal of Solids and Structures 254, 111860.

  9. D. Giarola, F. Dal Corso, D. Capuani, D. Bigoni (2022). Interactions between multiple rigid lamellae in a ductile metal matrix: shear band magnification and attenuation in localization patterns. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 104925.

  10. D. Misseroni, P.P. Pratapa, K. Liu, G. H. Paulino (2022). Experimental realization of tunable Poisson’s ratio in deployable origami metamaterials. Extreme Mechanics Letters, 53, 101685. Cover paper.                                                                                                                                           

  11. D. Bigoni, F. Bosi, F. Dal Corso, D. Misseroni (2022). Configurational Forces on Elastic Structures. In 50+ Years of AIMETA: A Journey through Theoretical and Applied Mechanics in Italy, Springer.

  12. D. Bigoni, M. Amato, and F. Dal Corso (2021). Configurational forces in penetration processes. In Solid (Bio)mechanics: Challenges of the Next Decade, Springer.

Conferences

  1. L. Seixas, A. Comitti, M. Penasa, F. Bosi (2024). “Characterisation and Modelling of ETFE Membranes for Tensile Structures”. International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures Anual Symposium 2024 (IASS 2024), Zurich, Switzerland, 26-30 August 2024.
  2. F. Bosi (2024). “Connected Curriculum: Demos And Digital Tools For Research-Based Education”. 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM 2024), Daegu, Korea, 25-30 August 2024
  3. F. Bosi (2024). “Multi-Objective Shape Optimization Of Architected Lattices“. 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM 2024), Daegu, Korea, 25-30 August 2024
  4. L. Seixas, A. Comitti, M. Penasa, F. Bosi (2024). “Thermoviscoelastoplastic modelling of ETFE membranes for lightweight structures”. 8th International Conference on Material Modelling (ICMM8), London, UK, 15-17 July 2024.
  5. A. Comitti, F. Bosi (2024). “Experimental characterisation and viscoelastic modelling of ETFE membranes.”3rd International Conference on Nonlinear Solid Mechanics (ICoNSoM 2024), Cagliari, Italy, 11-14 June 2024.
  6. A. Comitti, M. Penasa, F. Bosi (2023). “Thermomechanical characterisation and linear viscoelastic modeling of ETFE foils” 11h International Conference on Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures (Structural Membranes2023), Valencia, Spain, 2-4 October 2023
  7. L Seixas, M. Penasa, F. Bosi (2023). “Viscoplastic Modelling and Yield Criterion for ETFE Membranes.” 17th Internacional Conference on Computational Plasticity. Fundamentals and Aplications (COMPLAS 2023), Barcelona, Spain, 5-7 September 2023
  8. H. Vijayakumaran, A. C. Bown, M. A. Bessa (2023). “Hybrid Machine Learning for Constitutive Modeling of Multiphase Hyperelastic Materials”. 17th U. S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics (USNCCM17), Albuquerque, U.S.A, 23-27 July 2023
  9. MH. Nejabatmeimandi, A. Comitti, L. Seixas, A. Cabello, A. Bown (2023). Advancing the Design of Sustainable ETFE Membrane Structures: Insights from the Lighten Consortium Project. TENSINANTES2023: TensiNet Symposium, Nantes, France, 7-9 June 2023
  10. K. Suleman, F. Bosi (2022). The determination of the yield domain for highly deformable thin films. 11th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC 2022), Galway, Ireland, 4-8 July 2022.
  11. F. Bosi, M. Gori (2022). Modelling the deployment and shape accuracy of creased sheets. 11th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC 2022), Galway, Ireland, 4-8 July 2022.
  12. F.I. Azam, I. Kuszczak, PJ Tan, F. Bosi (2022). Analytical and Bayesian optimization of architected honeycombs. 11th European Solid Mechanics Conference (ESMC 2022), Galway, Ireland, 4-8 July 2022.
  13. A. Comitti, L. Seixas, M. Penasa, F. Bosi (2022). Thermomechanical characterisation of viscoelastic ETFE membranes. Poster presentation at the 18th International Conference on Deformation, Yield and Fracture of Polymers (DYFP2022), Kerkrade, NL, 10-14 April 2022.
  14. F. Bosi, F.I. Azam, I. Kuszczak, PJ Tan (2022). Topological optimisation of bending-dominated lattices. 18th European Mechanics of Materials Conference (EMMC18), Oxford, UK, 4-6 April 2022.
  15. K. Suleman, F. Bosi (2022). On the development of plasticity in inflatable thin films. 18th European Mechanics of Materials Conference (EMMC18), Oxford, UK, 4-6 April 2022.
  16. K. Suleman and F. Bosi (2021). The characterisation of the onset of plasticity through thin film inflation. X International conference on Textile Composites and Inflatable Structures – Structural Membranes 2021, 13-15 September 2021, online
  17. F. Bosi and K. Suleman (2021). The onset of plasticity through inflation of thin films. XXV ICTAM, 22-27 August 2021, Milano, Italy
  18. F. Dal Corso, P. Koutsogiannakis, D. Misseroni, T. Papathanasiou, and D. Bigoni (2021). Oscillating configurational constraints and nonlinear dynamics of extremely deformable structures. XXV ICTAM, 22-27 August 2021, Milano, Italy
  19. Dal Corso F, Koutsogiannakis P, Misseroni D, Papathanasiou T, Bigoni D (2021) “Elastica and oscillatory configurational forces”. APM2021 – XLIX International Conference “Advanced Problems in Mechanics”
  20. Dal Corso F, Giarola D, Capuani D, Bigoni D (2021) “Shear band patterns arising from rigid line inclusion distributions via boundary element technique”. Euromech Colloquium 626 “Mechanics of high-contrast elastic composites”

Invited talks and seminars

  1. F. Bosi. Invited Seminar. “The strength of ultralightweight solids: from membranes to architected materials”. University of Trento, Trento, Italy, 3 May 2024
  2. M. A. Bessa. Keynote talk. NEW.Mech2023, Boston, MA, USA, 26 May 2023.
  3. M. A. Bessa. Invited Talk. University of Porto, School of Engineering, Porto, Portugal, 16 December 2022.
  4. M. A. Bessa. Invited Talk. (Virtual), Beyond Fingerprinting Seminar, Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, NM, USA, 01 December 2022.
  5. M. A. Bessa. Invited Talk. Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering, Michigan University, Ann Harbor, MI, USA, 15 November 2022.
  6. M. A. Bessa. Invited talk. Aeronautics & Astronautics Department, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA, 20 October 2022.
  7. F. Bosi. The quest for ultralightweight materials: from membranes to architected lattices. Warwick Centre for Predictive Modelling seminar series, Warwick University, UK, 17 October 2022.
  8. F. Bosi. Mechanics of ultralightweight solids: from membranes to architected materials. Materials Engineering & Mechanics Seminar Series, Imperial College London, UK, 14 July 2022.
  9. F. Bosi. Quasicrystalline-generated phononic structures: finite waveguides and experiments. Artic Quasiperiodic Workshop (AQW2022), Luleå Univ. of Technology, Sweden, 20-23 June 2022.

Outreach

  1. “ETFE Material Modelling under Different Load Cases”, presentation during coffee break knowledge sharing at sbp, 24 May 2024
  2. “Building a Sustainable City” hands-on stand at the outreach event “GreenDay” in Bellinzona, Switzerland, 9 September 2023. 
  3. “UCL Mechanical Engineering PhD Conference”, 6 June 2023, London UK
  4. “Membrane structures: overview and perspectives” presentation to the students of Architectural Design and Architectural Computation at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, January 2023, London, UK.
  5. “Ultralightweight Membranes towards Sustainable Environment” outreach talk and discussion organized with Beethoven Gymnasiumin, Berlin in the the context of Science is Wonderful! initiative by EU MSCA, 21 December 2022 (Online)
  6. Poster presentation in the Innovation Hub NOI Techpark about the collaboration between industry and academia in MSCA. 13 December 2022, Bolzano, Italy. 
  7. “Impariamo dalla Natura a progettare i materiali del futuro – Leggere come l’aria, resistenti come la pietra: alla scoperta delle strutture gonfiabili”. Hands-on stand at SHARPER – European Researchers’ Night, 24 September 2021, Trento, Italy
  8. Tensys seminar “Design considerations for tension structures – Twenty years of stress! Tension structures from around the world“ delivered to the MSc program in Civil Engineering at the University of Trento, Italy, and open to the public via Zoom, 6 June 2021.

Deliverables (Period 1: November 1st 2020 - October 31st 2022)

  • D8.1 Consortium Agreement
  • D8.2 Supervisory Board of the Network
  • D7.1 LIGHTEN website
  • D8.3 Data Management Plan
  • D6.1 Personalised Career Development Plan
  • D2.1 Report of the Testing Protocols
  • D1.1 Report on ESR Recruitment Procedure
  • D8.4 Progress Report
  • D3.1 Literature review on failure and instabilities in membranes
  • D2.2 Thermoviscoelastoplastic experimental characterisation
  • D4.1 Parameterized representative volume element of material
  • D3.2 Novel procedure for the experimental characterisation of the yield strength in thin films and its validation
  • D2.3 Temperature and strain rate dependent yielding tests

Deliverables (Period 2: November 1st 2022 - April 30th 2025)

  • D3.3 Temperature and strain rate dependent yield criteria
  • D4.2 Open-source data driven framework code, applied to the analysis of the membrane material
  • D2.4 Thermo-viscoelastic constitutive model
  • D6.3 Report on the progress of each ESR
  • D7.3 Report on workshops
  • D3.4 Definition of thermovicoplastic constitutive relations
  • D5.1 Report on material user subroutines for commercial FE software
  • D4.3 Machine learning model of the material constitutive behaviour
  • D7.2: C.O.D.E. plan
  • D5.2 Numerical implementation in in-house FE software
  • D5.3 Design approaches under extreme condition
  • D8.5 Annual report
  • D6.2 Training Activities Report