Theory and Modeling of Morphing in Mechanics (TM3)

The ability to shift shape or form patterns in response to stimuli is everywhere in nature, helping living systems carry out their tasks with remarkable efficiency. Engineers are now borrowing this idea, building artificial structures that use the same principles to boost performance. Exployting continuum morphing or rapid, instability-related, shape transitions are opportunities to unlock entirely new functions.

Mathematical modelling is a powerful tool to describe the behaviour of morphable solids and to guide experimental approches. Anyone that wants to contribute towards a general frameworks where scientists of different disciplines can interact towards the understanding and the design of morphing in biological materials and novel artificial structures is welcome.

• Continuum models in multiphysics and non-linear mechanics problems and their implementation in numerical codes.
• Asymptotics for linear stability analysis and far-from-threshold analysis.
• Dimensional reduction for the descripiton slender active materials.
• Squishy matter and metamaterial.