Elasto-Active Instabilities

Presentations

• Soft Robots: Functionality via Instabilities

  Invited

  March 5, 2019, 2:30 PM – March 5, 2019, 3:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Katia Bertoldi

    • Harvard University
    • SEAS, Harvard University
    • John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    • School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
    • John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

  Authors

  • Katia Bertoldi

    • Harvard University
    • SEAS, Harvard University
    • John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
    • School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
    • John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University

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• Fluttering and dancing elastic rods: the dynamics of the elastica subject to follower and configurational forces

  Invited

  March 5, 2019, 3:06 PM – March 5, 2019, 3:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Davide Bigoni

    • University of Trento, Italy

  Authors

  • Davide Bigoni

    • University of Trento, Italy

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• From the onset of creasing as a Kosterlitz-Thouless transition to "buckling without bending" in morphogenesis

  Invited

  March 5, 2019, 3:42 PM – March 5, 2019, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • J. M. Schwarz

    • Department of Physics, Syracuse University
    • Physics, Syracuse University

  Authors

  • J. M. Schwarz

    • Department of Physics, Syracuse University
    • Physics, Syracuse University

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• Interplay between elasticity and activity: from vibrated elastic particles to penetration of active particles through elastic membranes

  Invited

  March 5, 2019, 4:18 PM – March 5, 2019, 4:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Hartmut Loewen

    • Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany, Institut für Theoretische Physik II: Weiche Materie
    • Theoretical Physics II, University of Dusseldorf
    • Institute of Theoretical Physics II, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf

  Authors

  • Hartmut Loewen

    • Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany, Institut für Theoretische Physik II: Weiche Materie
    • Theoretical Physics II, University of Dusseldorf
    • Institute of Theoretical Physics II, Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf

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• Patterning via differential activity

  Invited

  March 5, 2019, 4:54 PM – March 5, 2019, 5:30 PM

  Presenters

  • L Mahadevan

    • Harvard University
    • SEAS, Harvard University
    • Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
    • Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard
    • John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences, Harvard University
    • SEAS, Harvard
    • SEAS, Physics, OEB, Harvard University

  Authors

  • L Mahadevan

    • Harvard University
    • SEAS, Harvard University
    • Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
    • Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard
    • John A. Paulson School Of Engineering And Applied Sciences, Harvard University
    • SEAS, Harvard
    • SEAS, Physics, OEB, Harvard University

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