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Ferdinando Auricchio
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Strategic Action Line LI1: Personalised Production
The objective of this chapter is to describe the action line related to Personalised production (LI1). In particular, this chapter proposes research and innovation priorities aimed at promoting industrial syst...
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Free Bloch Wave Propagation in Periodic Cauchy Materials: Analytical and Computational Strategies
The mechanical behaviour of periodic three-dimensional non-homogeneous solids can be functionally designed by optimizing their cellular composite microstructure. The present contribution aims at establishing a...
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Additive Manufacturing: Challenges and Opportunities for Structural Mechanics
Additive Manufacturing (AM) is an innovative manufacturing technology which has known over the recent years a widespread adoption among many key industrial sectors. However, the potentiality of such a technolo...
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Towards Surgical Training Phantoms Obtained by Additive Manufacturing: Mechanical Characterization of Abdominal and Pelvic Organs. A Literature Review
Among the many advantages brought by Additive Manufacturing technologies in the clinical context, the possibility of producing training phantoms is of prominent importance. Within such a context, soft tissues,...
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Structural Design and Testing of Digitally Manufactured Concrete Structures
The form freedom enabled by digital fabrication with concrete technologies provides advantages for a wide range of concrete based objects, from architectural to structural elements. The current chapter focuses...
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The Finite Cell Method for Simulation of Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing processes are driven by moving laser-induced thermal sources which induce strong heat fluxes and fronts of phase change coupled to mechanical fields. Their numerical simulation poses sev...
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Mechanical Characterization of Cement-Based Mortar Used in 3DCP Including Early-Age Creep Effects
Digital fabrication techniques combined with suitable cementitious materials have successfully led to the implementation of innovative manufacturing processes for concrete-like products. However, although sign...
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Hospital Factory for Manufacturing Customised, Patient-Specific 3D Anatomo-Functional Models and Prostheses
The fabrication of personalised prostheses tailored on each patient is one of the major needs and key issues for the future of several surgical specialties. Moreover, the production of patient-specific anatomo...
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Predictive Computational Models of Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation
In the last decades, biomechanical computer models have been increasingly adopted in the cardiovascular field either to improve the knowledge of pathological conditions or to anticipate possible outcomes of th...
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Aortic Endovascular Surgery
The continuous technological improvements of medical instruments and devices make minimally-invasive approaches a real and valid alternative to standard open surgery in more and more cases. Recent developments...
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Numerical Studies on the Stability of Mixed Finite Elements Over Anisotropic Meshes Arising from Immersed Boundary Stokes Problems
Motivated by a recently proposed local refinement strategy for immersed interface problems, in this work we aim at dealing with the behavior of mixed finite elements for the Stokes problem in (strongly) anisot...
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On the Use of Anisotropic Triangles with Mixed Finite Elements: Application to an “Immersed” Approach for Incompressible Flow Problems
In this chapter, we discuss the use of some common mixed finite elements in the context of a locally anisotropic remeshing strategy, close in philosophy to “immersed” approaches for interface problems. A chara...
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Bayesian Estimation of the Aortic Stiffness based on Non-invasive Computed Tomography Images
Aortic diseases are one relevant cause of death in Western countries. They involve significant alterations of the aortic wall tissue, with consequent changes in the stiffness, i.e., the capability of the vessel t...
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Aortic Biological Prosthetic Valve for Open-Surgery and Percutaneous Implant: Procedure Simulation and Performance Assessment
Valvular heart disorders represent a remarkable contribution to cardiovascular diseases; in fact, more than 300,000 heart valve surgical operations were performed in 2006 worldwide. Such a huge social and econ...
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Non-genomic Action of Steroid Hormones: More Questions than Answers
In this chapter we aim to draw the attention of potential readers to several aspects of our research on non-genomic action of sex steroid hormones that have not as yet been fully investigated and might offer i...
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A New Integration Algorithm for the von-Mises Elasto-Plastic Model
We introduce a new numerical time integration scheme, in the framework of associative von-Mises plasticity with linear kinematic and isotropic hardening. The new procedure is based on the model reformulation i...
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Shape Memory Alloys: Material Modeling and Device Finite Element Simulations
The use of shape memory alloys (SMA) in an increasing number of applications in many fields of engineering, and in particular in biomedical engineering, is leading to a growing interest toward an exhaustive mo...
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Non-Genomic Action of Sex Steroid Hormones
This chapter aims at giving a concise, up-to-date view of the non-genomic action of sex-steroid hormones and some related aspects. It includes an overview of the identity of the receptors mediating non-genomic...
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A Beam Finite Element for Nonlinear Analysis of Shape Memory Alloy Devices
A large displacement finite rotation beam finite element formulation for shape memory alloy structural analysis is proposed. The Reissner-Mindlin beam model is considered in the total Lagrangian form. A refere...
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Toward an exhaustive modeling of the macroscopic behaviour of shape memory alloys
The employment of shape memory alloys (SMA) in a large number of applications in the fields of aeronautical, biomedical and structural engineering constitutes the basis for an increasing interest of researcher...
