[Reminder] IGM Colloquium: Prof. Davide Bigoni, University of Trento

IGM Colloquium: Prof. Davide Bigoni, University of Trento, Italy

Published: — Folding of a continuum and energy releasing or fluttering rods It will be shown that Cosserat elastic solids with extreme anisotropy may exhibit folding and faulting, the former being the process in which bending localizes into sharp corners separated by almost undeformed elements, while the latter corresponds to the formation of displacement jumps of finite size [1,2].