Extremely Deformable Structures

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bigoni, Davide (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Edition: 1.
• Series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, 562
• Subjects: Engineering.; Structural mechanics.; Engineering design.; Structural Mechanics.; Engineering Design.

Recently, a new research stimulus has derived from the observation that soft structures, such as biological systems, but also rubber and gel, may work in a post critical regime, where elastic elements are subject to extreme deformations, though still exhibiting excellent mechanical performances. Thi...

Table of Contents:

• New instability phenomena in elastic structures
• Solutions for slender rods in extreme conditions
• Periodic structures, instabilities, wave propagation
• Extremely deformable structures in bio-mechanics
• Bifurcations and path following for nonlinear elastic rods and solids
• Folding an deployment of thin-shell structures.