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Ferdinando Auricchio
Engineering
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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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Open AccessA continuous model for the simulation of manufacturing swarm robotics
Manufacturing large and/or complex structural components is today non-trivial and far-too expensive, due to limitations in the state-of-the-art production processes. Swarm robotics could then bring a different...
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Open AccessA coupled multiphase Lagrangian-Eulerian fluid-dynamics framework for numerical simulation of Laser Metal Deposition process
We present a Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) framework for the numerical simulation of the Laser Metal Deposition (LMD) process in 3D printing. Such a framework, comprehensive of both numerical formulations...
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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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Open AccessEarly-age creep behaviour of 3D printable mortars: Experimental characterisation and analytical modelling
The construction sector is experiencing significant technological innovations with digitalisation tools and automated construction techniques, such as additive manufacturing. Additive manufacturing utilising c...
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Open AccessMixed variational formulations for structural topology optimization based on the phase-field approach
We propose a variational principle combining a phase-field functional for structural topology optimization with a mixed (three-field) Hu–Washizu functional, then including directly in the formulation equilibri...
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Automatic Differentiation for Solid Mechanics
Automatic differentiation (AD) is an ensemble of techniques that allows to evaluate accurate numerical derivatives of a mathematical function expressed in a computer programming language. In this paper we use ...
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Open AccessDiffusion–reaction compartmental models formulated in a continuum mechanics framework: application to COVID-19, mathematical analysis, and numerical study
The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 has led to a surge in interest in the research of the mathematical modeling of epidemics. Many of the introduced models are so-called compartmental models, in which the total quan...
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Basis of the Lattice Boltzmann Method for Additive Manufacturing
Additive manufacturing (or 3D printing) is constantly growing as an innovative process for the production of complex-shape components. Among the seven recognized 3D printing technologies, powder bed fusion (PB...
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Optimization clustering technique for PieceWise Uniform Transformation Field Analysis homogenization of viscoplastic composites
Aim of the present study is to propose an enhanced method for the domain decomposition (clustering) of the representative volume element (RVE) of composite materials to be used with homogenization techniques, ...
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Graded-material design based on phase-field and topology optimization
In the present work we introduce a novel graded-material design based on phase-field and topology optimization. The main novelty of this work comes from the introduction of an additional phase-field variable i...
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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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Explicit parametric solutions of lattice structures with proper generalized decomposition (PGD)
Architectured materials (or metamaterials) are constituted by a unit-cell with a complex structural design repeated periodically forming a bulk material with emergent mechanical properties. One may obtain spec...
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Erratum to: Computational Methods for Elastoplasticity: An Overview of Conventional and Less‑Conventional Approaches
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Computational Methods for Elastoplasticity: An Overview of Conventional and Less-Conventional Approaches
The need of accurately reproducing the behaviour of elastoplastic materials in computational environments for the solution of engineering problems motivates the development of efficient and robust numerical sc...
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Open AccessPlanar Timoshenko-like model for multilayer non-prismatic beams
This paper aims at proposing a Timoshenko-like model for planar multilayer (i.e., non-homogeneous) non-prismatic beams. The main peculiarity of multilayer non-prismatic beams is a non-trivial stress distributi...
