A kinetic equation for granular media
A model of macroscale deformation and microvibration in skeletal muscle tissue
This paper deals with modeling the passive behavior of skeletal muscle tissue including certain microvibrations at the cell level. Our approach combines a continuum mechanics model with large deformation and incompressibility at the macroscale with chains of coupled nonlinear oscillators. The model verifies that an externally applied vibration at the appropriate frequency is able to synchronize microvibrations in skeletal muscle cells. From the numerical analysis point of view, one faces...
Analysis of a prototypical multiscale method coupling atomistic and continuum mechanics
In order to describe a solid which deforms smoothly in some region, but non smoothly in some other region, many multiscale methods have recently been proposed. They aim at coupling an atomistic model (discrete mechanics) with a macroscopic model (continuum mechanics). We provide here a theoretical ground for such a coupling in a one-dimensional setting. We briefly study the general case of a convex energy, and next concentrate on a specific example of a nonconvex energy, the Lennard-Jones case....
Analysis of a prototypical multiscale method coupling atomistic and continuum mechanics
In order to describe a solid which deforms smoothly in some region, but non smoothly in some other region, many multiscale methods have recently been proposed. They aim at coupling an atomistic model (discrete mechanics) with a macroscopic model (continuum mechanics). We provide here a theoretical ground for such a coupling in a one-dimensional setting. We briefly study the general case of a convex energy, and next concentrate on a specific example of a nonconvex energy, the Lennard-Jones case....
Analysis over infinite dimensional spaces and applications to quantum field theory
Axiomatic cohesion.
Concentrated force in quarter-space with a free or fixed half-plane and mixed boundary conditions on the other one.
Condizioni caratteristiche per le componenti dello stress
Dynamics of granular fluids
Extended continuum mechanics for the study of granular flows
We exploit a recent proposal of an «extended kinematics» to describe fast flows of granular materials. Prompted by some remarks in elementary point dynamics, we suggest balance laws which might be of use in studying the evolution of those flows.
Formulazione relativa delle leggi di evoluzione di un sistema continuo in relatività generale. Nota II
Formulazione relativa delle leggi di evoluzione di un sistema continuo in relatività generale
Ground states in complex bodies
A unified framework for analyzing the existence of ground states in wide classes of elastic complex bodies is presented here. The approach makes use of classical semicontinuity results, Sobolev mappings and cartesian currents. Weak diffeomorphisms are used to represent macroscopic deformations. Sobolev maps and cartesian currents describe the inner substructure of the material elements. Balance equations for irregular minimizers are derived. A contribution to the debate about the role of the balance...
Ground states in complex bodies
A unified framework for analyzing the existence of ground states in wide classes of elastic complex bodies is presented here. The approach makes use of classical semicontinuity results, Sobolev mappings and Cartesian currents. Weak diffeomorphisms are used to represent macroscopic deformations. Sobolev maps and Cartesian currents describe the inner substructure of the material elements. Balance equations for irregular minimizers are derived. A contribution to the debate about the role of the balance...
Introductory remarks to the dynamics of continua with microstructure
Introduzione alla meccanica relativistica dei continui con struttura scalare
Lectures on constitutive expressions
Line Fields with Branch Defects.
Linear approximation in Continuum Mechanics
Some critical remarks are made about the theory of Linear Elasticity, questioning on its validity in general. An alternative linear approximation of the exact theory is proposed.
Material constraints in continuum mechanics
Si dimostra che ci sono valide ragioni per considerare la teoria standard dei vincoli interni, nella meccanica dei continui, insufficientemente generale. In particolare, con l’unica eccezione dell’iperelasticità, l’extra-stress dovrebbe dipendere anche dai moltiplicatori di Lagrange, cioè, dallo stress che non effettua lavoro (virtuale).