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November 14 - 18, 2022 :
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Next student seminar :
Access to the program
Here you can find information about your internships:
Experimental Internship - Undergraduate program
Master ICFP first year Internship
News : ICFP Research seminars
November 14 - 18, 2022 :
All information about the program
Contact us - Student support and Graduate School office :
Tél : 01 44 32 35 60
enseignement@phys.ens.fr
Faculty: Matteo Ciccotti (SIMM, ESPCI), Benoit Roman (PMMH, ESPCI)
ECTS credits : 3
Language of instruction : English
Examination:
The grade will be a combination of 2 parts : grades for the mini-project (presentation by the two members of the group) + an oral examination for each student (discussion of a research article)
Oral presentations will be made by by video in case of university closure.
Website: https://blog.espci.fr/softsolids/
Description :
Very much like fluids, many solids are capable of very large deformations, either because they are organized in slender shapes (rods, shells) or because they are constituted by soft materials (gels, rubbers).
Examples are widespread around us (cables, clothes, soda cans, ...), in biology (tissues, membranes, plants), food (spaghettis, jelly, cheese) and at many scales (graphene, nanotubes, flexible electronics or tectonics).
The objective of this course is to give a background on the mechanics of deformable solids (elasticity, plasticity, fracture, adhesion and friction) and to illustrate their coupling with other phenomena such as instabilities, fluid flow, tissue growth and collective behavior.
1. How to describe deformations : stresses and strains
2. Deformable slender objects.
3. What is a solid?
4. Engineering point of view on rods and truss.
5. Elastic energy
6. Elastic Instabilities : avoiding and using them.
7. Fracture. how things break.
8. Fracture and adhesion of thin objects.
9. Soft solids.
10. interacting fluid and solids.
11. Plasticity.
Next student seminar :
Access to the program
Here you can find information about your internships:
Experimental Internship - Undergraduate program
Master ICFP first year Internship
News : ICFP Research seminars
November 14 - 18, 2022 :
All information about the program
Contact us - Student support and Graduate School office :
Tél : 01 44 32 35 60
enseignement@phys.ens.fr