Outreach activities

• Presentations
  
  
  • Giornata di studio Le Scienze della Terra di Leonardo da Vinci e oggi, November 21, 2019, Museo delle Scienze MUSE, Trento
    Bigoni D., "Leonardo da Vinci e la Scienza delle Costruzioni".
  
  
  • VI Festival de Ciencia Puerto de Ideas, April 14, 2019, Antofagasta, Cile
    Bigoni D., "Maquinas elasticas. De da Vinci a la robotica".
    Watch the presentation
  
  
  • Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, April 15, 2019, Santiago, Cile
    Bigoni D. and Modugno G.F., "Da Vinci: armonia mecanica y su influencia en la ciencia de la construccion y la musica".
  
  
  • Istituto Italiano di Cultura, April 16, 2019, Santiago, Cile
    Bigoni D., "Un cientifico del siglo XXI conversa con Leonardo da Vinci".
  
  
• Highlights and interviews on newspapers and websites
  
  
  • Article (in Spanish) in the Chilean newspaper "El Mercurio" (February 7, 2019).
  
  

Talks

• Plenary lectures


• Second Workshop of the Marie Curie project NEWFRAC, (February 14-17, 2022, Lucca)
  "Hypoelasticity without a strain potential".


• The Signorini Lecture at RAM3 Recent Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics of Materials, (September 30-October 1, 2021, Roma)
  "Flutter instability and non-holonomic constraints".


• Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, (March 29, 2021)
  "Flutter, Hopf bifurcation and Ziegler paradox for elastic structures subject to non-holonomic constraints".
  


• Mechanical Engineering Colloquium, New Jersey Institute of Technology, (February 3, 2021)
  "Flutter and divergence instabilities and Hopf bifurcation in elastic structures".
  Watch the talk:
  [Movie]
  


• Prof. B. Karunes Memorial Lecture at the 65-th Congress of the Indian Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, December 9-12, 2020, GITAM Hyderabad, India
  "Extreme mechanics of solids and structures".


• Engineering Mechanics Institute Conference, June 18-21, 2019, Pasadena, Caltech
  Nonconservative loads of the follower type and related Hopf bifurcations in elastic structures.


• 1519-2019: Leonardo da Vinci y la ciencia, May 21, 2019, Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Mexico City
  "The work of Leonardo da Vinci as an inspiration for the mechanics of the 21st century".
  Photo


• Midwest Mechanics Seminars, Tour B (Purdue, Illinois, IIT, Iowa, Minnesota, April 1-5, 2019)
  
  • Purdue University "Instabilities in solids and structures: shear bands and flutter"
  • University of Illinois "Folding of ductile solids and Eshelby forces in elastic rods"
  • Illinois Institute of Technology "Shear Bands in Solids and Fluttering of Elastic Rods"
  • Iowa State University "Folding of Elastic Solids and Eshelby Forces in Elastic Rods"
  • University of Minnesota "Instabilities in Solids and Structures: Shear Banding of Continua and Fluttering of Rods"


• 2019 International Workshop on Multiscale Innovative Materials and Structures, (February 28-March 2, 2019, Cetara, Salerno)
  "Slip surfaces, shear bands, and the dynamics of flexural lattices".


• Keynote lectures
• KTH Solid Mechanics seminar series , (January 13, 2022)
  “Flutter instability, homogenization, and hypoelastic materials without a strain potential”.


• XXV International Conference of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics ICTAM 2021, (August 22-27, 2021, Milano)
  "Teaching Mechanics with Structural Models".


• XVI ECerS Conference 2019, (June 16-20, 2019, Torino)
  "Mechanical modelling of ceramic powder forming and sintering".


• Web-seminars
• IMT Scuola Alti Studi Lucca, (July 27, 2020)
  "Shear bands, metamaterials, flutter and other stories".


• MetaMAT Series 2020, (July 7, 2020)
  "Metamaterials, shear bands and invisibility".
Watch the talk:
[Movie]




• Conference presentations
• Euromech Colloquium 626 Mechanics of Hih-Contrast Elastic Composites, (September 6-8, 2021, Keele)
  "Metamaterials for applications at extreme deformation".


• XXV International Conference of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics ICTAM 2021, (August 22-27, 2021, Milano)
  "Flutter of elastic rods subject to Ziegler and Reut loads".


• "EPSRC LCMH Research Showcase and Future Directions event" July 5-6, 2021, Liverpool, UK (virtual presentation).
  The mechanics of brain tissue


• "EM4SS’21 – Engineered Materials for Sustainable Structures" April 26-28, 2021, Modena, Italy (virtual presentation).
  Metamaterials and shear bands.


• "14th International Conference on Vibration Problems" September 1-4, 2019, Crete, Greece.
  The dynamics of an elastic rod subject to a configurational or to a follower force


• "The Multiscale Spectrum of Constitutive Modeling in Solid Mechanics, July 1-5 2019, Castro Urdiales, Spain
  Essays on elastic metamaterials.


• "Seminario Internacional Enzo Levi 2019, May 20, 2019, Mexico City.
  Folding of ductile solids and Eshelby forces in elastic rods.


• Celebration of the 500th Anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death Leonardo da Vinci: Apoteosi della creatività multidisciplinare", May 2, 2019, Bologna
  "Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei e la Scienza delle Costruzioni".


• APS March Meeting, March 4-8, 2019, Boston, MA.
  Fluttering and dancing elastic rods: the dynamics of the elastica subject to follower and configurational forces.


• Courses


• 8-hours course for the Summer School "Nonlinear solid mechanics", University of Trento, July 25 – 30, 2022.
  


• 6-hours course "Elasticity and material instability", SISSA, June 20-22, 2022, Trieste.
  


• CISM-IUTAM 2022 Advanced School "Instability and Bifurcation Phenomena in Solids Including Coupled Field Phenomena", Udine, June 13-17, 2022
  Coordinated by Luis Dorfmann and Ray Ogden


• INSPIRE 2nd Training School at University of Trento December 1-3, 2020 (virtual meeting)
  "Associative and nonassociative elastoplasticity and stability".


• Summer school on metamorphism at University of Pavia “The metamorphosis of metamorphism” Pavia 6 th 11 th July 2020 - Postponed because of the Covid emergency
  "Shear bands, folding and faulting of geological media".



• Workshop presentations


• COST Workshop on Advances in numerical modelling of adhesion and friction, November 18-19, 2019, Trento University,
  "Flutter from friction".


• 2018 Workshop on Dynamic phenomena in media with microstructure, October 7-12, 2018, Tel Aviv University,
  "The dynamics of folding in Cosserat materials".



• Seminars


• April 7, 2022, Lyon
  "Flutter in structures and elastic media"


• Joan van der Waals colloquium, April 1, 2022, Leiden
  "Hyperelasticity and beyond"


• March 31, 2022, Dortmund
  "Flutter, Hopf bifurcation and Ziegler paradox in structures and elastic media"


• March 3, 2022, IMT Lucca
  "Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei e la Scienza delle Costruzioni"


• Scuola di Dottorato IUAV, Venezia (February 28, 2022)
  "Leonardo da Vinci, Galileo Galilei e la Scienza delle Costruzioni"
  "Teaching Structural Mechanics with Models"


• Scuola di Dottorato IUAV, Venezia (March 1, 2022)
  "Flutter and divergence instabilities in elastic structures"
  


• July 15, 2021, IMT Lucca
  "Instabilities in solids and structures"


• February 15, 2020, IMT Lucca
  "Metamaterials and instabilities in extreme elastic materials"
  Photo


• February 6, 2020, Politecnico di Milano
  "The activity of the Trento Research Unit in the framework of the PRIN 2015 Project"
  Agenda


• October 18, 2019, IMT Lucca
  "Structures loaded with a force acting along a line, or the “Reut’s column problem”"
  "photo"


• May 24, 2019, Instituto de Energias Renovabless, UNAM, Temixco, Mexico
  "The work of Leonardo da Vinci as an inspiration for the mechanics of the 21st century"
  Photo


• May 10, 2019, SISSA, Trieste
  "Folding in extreme materials and Eshelby forces in elastic rods rods"








Editorial activities



• Special issues


• Co-Editor (together with S. Forest and S. Stupkiewicz) of International Journal of Solids and Structures, Henryk Petryk 70th Anniversary Issue, 2021.



Scientific organization



• Congress organization


• Member of the Scientific Committee of the: 4th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference CORASS 2023 – 4th International Conference on Recent Advances in Design, Resilience and Strengthening of Structures, October 16-18, 2023, Coimbra, Portugal.


• Member of the Scientific Committee of the: CMM-SolMech 2022 (42nd Solid Mechanics Conference and Conference on Computer Methods in Mechanics), September 5-8, 2022, Swinoujscie, Poland.


• Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the: International Congress of Fracture 15 (ICF15), June 13-18, 2021, Atlanta (USA) - Postponed because of the Covid emergency.


• Member of the symposium organizing commitee for the symposium S2 Modeling, characterization and digitalization of materials and processes (incl. NDT, process diagnosis) of the ECERS conference, August 29 -Sept 2, 2021, Dresden.


• Member of the Scientific Committee of the Euromech Colloquium 626: Mechanics of High-Contrast Elastic Composites, September 6-8, 2021, Keele, UK. Flyer.


• Member of the Italian Steering Committee of the congress: 25th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, August 22-27, 2021, Milano (Italy)


• Member of the Scientific Committee of the congress: EM4SS'21 Engineered Materials for Sustainable Structures, April 26-28, 2021, Modena (Italy)


• Member of the scientific committee of the congress: ASCE Engineering Mechanics Institute International Conference , April 5-8, 2020, Durham (UK) - Postponed because of the Covid emergency.


• Member of the scientific committee of the congress: 3rd International Conference on Recent Advances in Nonlinear Design, Resilience and Rehabilitation of Structures, October 16-18, 2019, Coimbra (PT).


• Member of the scientific committee of the congress: XXIV Congresso AIMETA 2019, September 15-19, 2019, Roma.


• Member of the Scientific Committee of the "14th International Conference on Vibration Problems" September 1-4, 2019, Crete, Greece.


• Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Conference "The multiscale spectrum of constitutive modeling in solid mechanics" July 1-5, 2019, Castro Urdiales, Spain.


• Organizer of the Symposium "Modelling of ceramics - IV CERMODEL", part of the congress: XVI ECerS Conference, June 16-20, 2019, Torino, Italy.





• Advanced courses organization


• June 22-26, 2020 - CISM/IUTAM 2020 Advanced School: "Instability and bifurcation of solids including coupled field phenomena" (Udine, I) - Postponed because of the Covid emergency






Miscellaneous Service




• External Examining


• Marzo 2022. Membro commissione giudicatrice per la procedura di chiamata per la copertura di un posto di professore di prima fascia per il settore concorsuale 08/B2, settore scientifico-disciplinare ICAR/08 "Scienza delle costruzioni", presso il Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Architettura, Territorio, Ambiente e di Matematica dell'Università di Brescia.


• Dicembre 2021. Membro commissione giudicatrice per la procedura di selezione pubblica per l'assunzione di 1 Ricercatore a tempo determinato (Junior) Settore Concorsuale 08/B2, presso il Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale del Politecnico di Milano.


• Novembre 2021. Membro commissione giudicatrice per la procedura di selezione pubblica per l'assunzione di 1 Ricercatore a tempo pieno presso L'Università di Brescia, per il settore scientifico disciplinare ICAR/08 Scienza delle costruzioni.


• Marzo 2021. Membro commissione giudicatrice per la procedura di selezione pubblica per l'assunzione di 1 Ricercatore ai sensi dell'art. 24 comma 3, lettera a) della Legge 240/2010 presso il Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale del Politecnico di Milano, per il settore scientifico disciplinare ICAR/08 Scienza delle costruzioni.


• Marzo 2021. Membro commissione giudicatrice per la procedura selettiva libera di chiamata di un professore ordinario presso il Dipartimento di Ingegneria Meccanica, Chimica e dei Materiali dell'Università di Cagliari, per il settore scientifico disciplinare ICAR/08 Scienza delle costruzioni.


• PhD September 24, 2020 SISSA Trieste - Daniele Agostinelli "Mathematical models for biological motility: From peristaltic crawling to plant nutations"


• HDR (Habilitation à diriger des recherches) December 13, 2019 - Arnaud Lazarus - Institut d’Alembert (Paris)


• Dicembre 2019. Membro commissione giudicatrice per la copertura di n. 1 posto di professore di seconda fascia presso il Dipartimento di Ingegneria civile, chimica e ambientale del Politecnico di Milano, per il settore scientifico disciplinare ICAR/08 Scienza delle costruzioni.


• PhD July 26, 2019 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Hamidreza Dehghani "Mechanical modeling of poroelastic and residually stressed hyperelastic materials and its application to biological tissues"




• Review of grants and proposals


• Panel Member for the ERC Starting Grants (year 2021).


• Panel Member for the Swiss National Science Foundation (years 2020-2021).


• Reviewer for the NASA Solar System Workings (SSW) Program (year 2020).


• Reviewer for the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (year 2020).


• Member of the external advisor board for the EIC Pathfinder: FET Proactive - Boosting emerging technologies project
  Metaveh - Metamaterials Enhanced Vibration Energy Harvesting
  (years 2020-2024).


• Member of the external advisor board for the EU project NewFrac Training Network
  New strategies for multifield fracture problems across scales in heterogeneous systems for energy, health and transport (years 2020-2024).