Mims Unisa
Lirim Collard
This Workshop is focused on the interdisciplinary area of materials design and modeling at various length and time scales, with emphasis on innovative eco-sustainable materials, nanomaterials and nanostructures, metamaterials, and complex structures
The meeting room, the terraces and the banquet halls of the lovely Mediterranea Hotel ( ), located in a scenic venue of the city of Salerno, will host the scientific and social activities of the first part of the Workshop (July 11-13, 2024). The participants can make reservations at this hotel on their own, using the dedicated webpage ( =12936). Alternative accommodations are available at nearby hotels (www.multiscale.unisa.it).
Article in SCHM
(March-April 2022)
The article "Novel magnetic levitation systems for the vibration control of lightweight structures and artworks" has been published in Structural Control and Health Monitoring.Your browser does not support HTML5 video.
Paper in Nanomaterials
(March 2020)
The paper "Design and Testing of Bistable Lattices with Tensegrity Architecture and Nanoscale Features Fabricated by Multiphoton Lithography", dealing with the bistable response of 3D printed microscale tensegrities with struts featuring 250 nm radius has been published into the special issue of Nanomaterials: Multiscale Innovative Materials and Structures.
New paper in the Int. J. Solids and Structures
(July 2018)
The paper"Tuning frequency band gaps of tensegrity mass-spring chains with local andglobal prestress"has been accepted for publication in the International Journal of Solids and Structures.
Major Contributions to Tensegrity Systems Research AWARD
(03/04/2018)
F. Fraternali has received the Major Contributions to Tensegrity Systems Research Award.from the Texas A&M Laboratory on Tensegrity Systemswith the following motivation:We especially wish to honor your very significant contributions to the following important acoustic problem:The speed of sound can be controlled by tensegrity structures with variable stiffness.
Research Experience
Structural Engineering Test Hall, University of Salerno, Italy
1992 to present
Seismic design of structures. Collapse spectra. Development and assessment of mechanical theories of laminated composite structures. Effects of moderately large rotations and bimodular material behavior. Local-global stability analysis and post buckling response. Mechanical models of FRP-reinforced structures. Modeling of delamination effects. Service life and failure behavior. Experimental validation. Interlaminar stress measurement. Design and experimentation of junctions for FRP reinforcements. Delamination tests on composite beams. Testing of real scale models of FRP-reinforced structures. Failure test of reinforced concrete beams strengthened with FRP plates and wrappings. Construction, instrumentation, testing and modeling of a FRP-reinforced pavilion vault in masonry bricks. Stress measurement through instrumented bricks. From discrete to continuum variational methods in computational mechanics. Unilateral materials and structures (no-tension/no-compression materials and structures). Structural optimization via variational methods and evolutionary strategies. Free discontinuity models in fracture mechanics. Buckling tests of thin-walled cylinders and tubes. Crack tracking in elastic and no-tension structures.
CalTech Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Pasadena, CA, USA
2005 to present
Collaboration with Michael Ortiz's research group(link1), the Solid Dynamics group of the Center for the Simulation of the Dynamic Response of Materials (ASC), and the Caltech's Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR). Formulation of constitutive models for the dynamics of polymers and soft biological tissue. Variational multiscale models for fracture and fragmentation of brittle and cohesive materials. Dynamics, damage and fragmentation of composite structures under blast and ballistic loadings. Simulation of traumatic head injuries. Prediction of mechanical and physiological damage to brain tissue.
Collaboration with Chiara Daraio's research group (link2) on the mechanical and numerical modeling of strongly nonlinear phononic crystals. Multiscale analysis of wave propagation in granular materials. Study of solitary wave propagation, anomalous wave reflections, shock disintegration, tunability of wave properties. Use of solitary waves for non-destructive evaluation. Multiscale mechanical modeling of nanostructures composed of carbon nanotube foams and polymeric films.Mechanical modeling and experimental characterization of innovative lattice metamaterials. Bandgap analysis of tensegrity metamaterials.
Department of Structural EngineeringandCaltrans Seismic Response Modification Device (SRMD) Test FacilityUniversity of California, San Diego, USA
2015 to present
Mechanical modeling and experimental analysis of mechanical metamaterials formed by layers of pentamode lattices alternating with stiffening plates.Deevelopment of seismic isolation devices and vibration attenuation tools based on lattice materials.
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, USA
2012 to present
Collaboration with Robert Skelton (link1) and Vitali Nesterenko (link2) research groups. Building and testing of real-scale models of tensegrity structures. Optimal design of minimum mass tensegrity structures with parametric architecture. Innovative structures for energy efficient buildings. Computational design and experimentation of soft tensegrity metamaterials.
Department of Mechanical and Process Enginering, ETH Zurich, CH
2013 to 2016
Collaboration with Chiara Daraio's research group on the design and engineering of acoustic metamaterials based on granular materials and tensegrity lattices. Modeling and testing of carbon nanotube structures and hierarchical materials.Tensegrity actuators and sensors.
Department of Materials Science and Enginering, University of Sheffield, UK
&Mercury Centre for Advanced Manufacturing Technology & Production
2013 to present
Collaborations with Conny Rodenburg and Russel Goodall research groups. Plasma irradiation and particle mask treatments to enhance the surface roughness of polymeric materials. 3D printing of periodic lattices based on tensegrity structures and shape memory metals. Tensegrity modeling of the spider silk. Modeling and characterization of reinforcin elements for engineering materials with fractal architecture.
Bioengineering and Biomechanics Laboratory, University of Salerno, Italy
2003 to present
Collaboration with Maurizio Angelillo and Antonio Fortunato on the characterization of the mechanical behavior of brain tissue. Measurement of regional and directional mechanical properties of brain pig specimens through tensile tests. Development of constitutive models of brain tissue. Construction of a finite element model of the human head from MRI and CT scans. Validation against laboratory data. Simulations of traumatic brain injuries. Head injury criteria. Experimentation of honeycomb materials and foams for use as dissipative fillers in head protection devices. Falling weight impact tests.
King's College, London, UK, Biological Physics and Soft Matter Group
2008 through 2011
Multiscale models of biomembranes and nanostructures, with applications to the red blood cell membrane and carbon nanotube assemblies. Variational multiscale approach. Continuum limits of the interaction potentials acting at the microscopic scale. Modeling of membrane networks as point particles interacting via harmonic and dihedral potentials. Modeling of carbon nanotube structures as chains of nanoparticles interacting via bistable spring potentials. In situ characterization of the mechanical properties of biomembranes and carbon nanotube structures.
Virginia Tech College of EngineeringBlacksburg, VA, USA
Aug-Dec 1991
Development of mechanical models of laminated composite shells.Edited Special Issues
MRC special issue
The special issue of Mechanics Research Communications (MRC)MULTI-SCALE MODELING AND CHARACTERIZATION OF INNOVATIVE MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES, Edited by Fernando Fraternali and Anthony D. Rosato, has been published into Volume 58 of MRC (Pages 1-156, June 2014)(www.multiscale.unisa.it/previous_edition).
JCOMB special issue
Fernando Fraternali, Luciano Feo and Robert E. Skelton announce that the special issue of Composites Part B: Engineering (JCOMB) titledCOMPOSITE LATTICES AND MULTISCALE INNOVATIVE MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES, which is linked to the2016 International Workshop on Multiscale Innovative Materials and Structures (MIMS16)held on October 28-30 in Cetara (Salerno), has been published into Volume 115 of JCOMB (Pages 1-504, April 2017)(www.multiscale.unisa.it).
Frontiers in Materials article collection
Fernando Fraternali, Chiara Daraio and Julian Rimoli announce that the research topic of Frontiers in Materials titledMULTISCALE LATTICES AND COMPOSITE MATERIALS: OPTIMAL DESIGN, MODELING AND CHARACTERIZATION, has been published.
MRC special issue
Fernando Fraternali and Glaucio Paulino announce that the special issue of Mechanics Research Communications titledADVANCES IN MECHANICAL METAMATERIALS AND SMART STRUCTURES, has been published.
Nanomaterials special issue
Raffaele Barretta, Domenico De Tommasi and Fernando Fraternali announce that the the special issue NANOMATERIALS: MULTISCALE INNOVATIVE MATERIALS AND STRUCTURES, has been launched.