Davide Bigoni
Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics

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Address: Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale e Meccanica
Universita' di Trento, via Mesiano, 77 I-38123 Trento (Italia)
Office location: III piano, Stanza 338
Tel: +39 0461 282507
Fax: +39 0461 282599
E-mail: davide.bigoni@unitn.it
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  Davide Bigoni
  Nonlinear Solid Mechanics
  Bifurcation Theory and Material Instability

   Cambridge University Press (Hardback)
   ISBN:9781107025417
   550 pages
   235 b/w illus. 18 colour illus. 10 tables
   Dimensions: 253 x 177 mm
   Available from August 2012


   Contents, Preface and Foreword



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Tensile buckling
Shear bands
Torsional locomotion
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Mechanics of masonry
Flutter induced by friction
Structural interfaces & Metamaterials
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Boundary elements
Powder compaction
Blade instability
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Composite materials
Fracture mechanics
Constitutive modelling of materials
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Bifurcation & Instability
Multiple bifurcations
Eshelby-like forces
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Mechanics of brain tissue & Biomechanics
Elastica arm scale
Stiff inclusions
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Dripping of a rod
Injection of an elastic rod
The elastica compass and the elastica catapult
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Serpentine locomotion
through energy release
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Truss structures
Frame structures
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