• "NEUROFIBRES - Biofunctionalised electroconducting microfibres for the treatment of spinal cord injury" H2020-FETPROACT-2016 [2017-2020, Research Unit Coordinator: Prof. Pugno]


• "SILKENE - Bionic silk with graphene or other nanomaterials spun by silkworms" H2020-ERC-2015-PoC [2016-2017, Project Coordinator: Prof. Pugno]


• "KNOTOUGH - Super-tough knotted fibres" H2020-ERC-2013-PoC [2015-2016, Project Coordinator: Prof. Pugno]


• "INSTABILITIES: Instabilities and nonlocal multiscale modelling of materials" FP7-IDEAS-2013-ERCAdG [2014-2019, Project Coordinator: Prof. Bigoni]


• "REPLICA2: Large-area replication of biological anti-adhesive nanosurfaces" FP7-IDEAS-2013-ERCPoC [2013-2014, Project Coordinator: Prof. Pugno]


• "CERMAT2 - New ceramic technologies and novel multifunctional ceramic devices and structures" FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN [2013-2017, Project Coordinator: Dr. Piccolroaz]


• "HOTBRICKS - Mechanics of refractory materials at high-temperature for advanced industrial technologies" FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IAPP [2013-2017, Project Coordinator: Dr. Dal Corso]


• "MeMic - Fracture mechanics of microstructured composites incorporating intrinsic length-scales" FP7-PEOPLE-2013-CIG [2013-2017, Project Coordinator: Prof. Bigoni / Researcher: Dr. Piccolroaz]


• "TAMER Trans-Atlantic Micromechanics Evolving Research - Materials containing inhomogeneities of diverse physical properties, shapes and orientations" FP7-PEOPLE-2013-IRSES [2014-2018, Research Unit Coordinator: Prof. Bigoni]


• "BISHNAM - Bio-inspired hierarchical super nanomaterials" FP7-IDEAS-2011-ERCStG [2012-2016, Project Coordinator: Prof. Pugno]


• "INTERCER2 - Modelling and optimal design of ceramic structures with defects and imperfect interfaces", FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IAPP [2011-2015, Project Coordinator: Prof. Bigoni]


• "Structural mechanics models for renewable energy applications", FIRB 2010 [2011-2016, Research Unit Coordinator: Dr. Piccolroaz]


• "Multi-scale modelling of material instabilities, mechanical waves, gradient effects, and metamaterials" MIUR Cofin 2009 [2011-2013, Research Unit Coordinator: Prof. Bigoni]

Laboratories

Instabilities Lab
The aim of the lab is the investigation of the behaviour of materials and structures, subject to quasi-static and dynamic loadings, working on small-size models invented to capture the most important mechanical aspects. We use photoelasticity, high-speed cameras, miniaturized accelerometers, with three testing machines and a linear actuator. In addition to teaching models of frames and truss structures, we have tested models of masonry and voussoirs arches, elastic structures in conditions of buckling or flutter instability, material reinforced through thin inclusions, granular materials, and forming of metallic and ceramic powders.

Electromechanical testing machines and transmission polariscope [Responsible: D. Misseroni] Engraving Machine [Responsible: D. Misseroni]

Electromechanical testing machine [Responsible: D. Misseroni]

Laboratory of Bio-Inspired & Graphene Nanomechanics

Testing machine for nanomechanical characterization [Responsible: M.F. Pantano]

HPC cluster [Responsible: R. Guarino]

Laboratory for Numerical Modelling of Materials
New boundary element and finite element techniques are developed for linear and nonlinear material models to analyze problems involving deformation, fracture and damage of structures. The laboratory uses a HPC cluster shared with the Laboratory of Applied Mathematics of the University of Trento.

Facilities

Hardware:

• Electromechanical testing machines (two ELE Tritest 50 by ELE International Ltd, one Midi 10 and one Beta 100 by Messphysik Materials Testing);
• Engraving Machines (EGX-600 and MDX-540 by Roland);
• 3D printer (GMAX3D by Gimax);
• Testing machine for nanomechanical characterization (Agilent UTM T150 by Agilent Technologies);
• POLYTEC Hydraulic Control Power Units, Pressure max 200bar;
• Triaxial Hoeck Load Cell A137 38.10x75mm 1.5", 70MPa;
• Linear drive unit (Damo s.r.l., model AMV120LB) equipped with ABB (ABB Sace S.p.A.) AC servo motor (model BSM0400CN00) and controlled with ABB servo drive (model BSD0400);
• Linear/circular transmission polariscope designed by us and equipped with a white and sodium vapor lightbox purchased from Tiedemann & Betz;
• Vibration Test System TIRA vib 51144 (Frequency range 2-6500 Hz, Rated peak force SINE/RANDOM 440N, Max rated travel 25.4mm) equipped with Power Amplifier TIRA BAA 1000 (Frequency range 2-20000 Hz);
• ElectroForce Linearmotor 3300 Series II by Bose (Frequency range 1-100 Hz, Rated peak force SINE/RANDOM 3000N, Max rated travel 25 mm);
• Stereoscopic microscope Nikon SMZ-800 equipped with Objectives (P-Plan Apo 0.5X and P-ED Plan 1.5X by Nikon);
• Digital cameras Nikon D100 and D200 equipped with AF Nikkor 18-35mm 1:3.5-4.5 D, AF-S micro Nikkor 105 mm 1:2.8G ED and AF-S micro Nikkor 70�180 mm 1:4.5�5.6 D lenses;
• Soleil-Babinet compensator (400-1000nm) of Thorlabs, model SBC-VIS;
• Full HD camcorder Sony Handycam HDR-XR550;
• Stereoscopic 3D Full HD camcorder Sony Handycam HDR-TD10E;
• High definition digital camera SONY NEX-5N and alpha6300 with APS-C Sensor;
• High speed digital camera CASIO EX-FH25;
• High speed image acquisition Dalsa Genie HM1400 GigE (1400 x 1024, 64 fps);
• High accuracy distributed data acquisition system Measurement Systems Ltd Datascan 7320;
• Modular data acquisition systems NI CompactDAQ (NI cDAQ-9172) and NI CompactRIO (NI cRIO-9074) equipped with NI-9219, NI-9233, NI-9237, NI-9401, NI-9411 and NI-9263 modules;
• 8-slot PXI mainframe chassis NI PXI-1042Q equipped with NI PXI-8108 controller, NI PXI-5105 8-channel digitizer/oscilloscope and NI PXI-6221 data acquisition system;
• Olympus PANAMETRICS-NDT square wave pulser/receiver 5077PR and PANAMETRICS-NDT EPOCH 4B Ultrasonic flow detector equipped with Olympus Contact Transducers for Longitudinal waves (NDT 5MHZ/1.0", NDT 1MHZ/1.0", NDT 0.5MHZ/1.5", NDT 100kHZ/1.5", NDT 50kHZ/1.5") and Normal Incidence Shear Waves (1MHz/1.00", 0.5MHz/1.00", 100kHz/1.00");
• HPC cluster (two 64-core ProLiant BL460c by HP);
• HP blade system composed of 7 compute nodes of the type HP Proliant BL685 G7, each equipped with 4 AMD Opteron 6272/16c processors and 256 GB of RAM. The blades are interconnected with each other via Infiniband. The system thus has a total number of 448 CPU cores.

Software:

• Finite element codes for linear and nonlinear structural and solid mechanics applications;
• Codes for solid modelling and mesh generation;
• Mathematical libraries;
• Codes for symbolic manipulation;
• Finite element and boundary element codes developed in the Computational Solid and Structural Mechanics Lab are available (see Free Software);
• FEM codes: ABAQUS, Comsol Multiphysics.

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Contacts

Prof. Davide Bigoni   Prof. Luca Deseri   Prof. Nicola Pugno
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Ambientale e Meccanica
Universit� di Trento, via Mesiano, 77 I-38123 Trento (Italia)
E-mail: bigoni@ing.unitn.it; luca.deseri@ing.unitn.it; nicola.pugno@unitn.it


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