University of Trento, Italy
Department of Civil, Environmental and Mechanical Engineering

SOLID AND STRUCTURAL MECHANICS GROUP

Francesco Dal Corso
Assistant Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics

Ph.D. thesis

Cracks, shear bands and lamellar inclusions in homogeneously prestressed materials. Advisor: Prof. D. Bigoni.
XXI Cycle of Graduate School in Structural Engineering Modelling, Preservation and Control of Materials and Structures (2009). University of Trento, Trento, Italy.

Papers published in international journals

Single copies of the articles can be downloaded and printed for the reader's personal research and study.
  1. Bacca, M., Dal Corso, F. Veber, D. and Bigoni, D. (2013).
    Anisotropic effective higher-order response of heterogeneous Cauchy elastic materials.
    Submitted, http://arxiv.org/abs/1306.0421

  2. Bacca, M., Bigoni, D., Dal Corso, F. and Veber, D. (2013).
    Homogenization of heterogeneous Cauchy-elastic materials leads to Mindlin second-gradient elasticity
    Part I: Closed form expression for the effective higher-order constitutive tensor.
    Submitted, http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.2365

  3. Bacca, M., Bigoni, D., Dal Corso, F. and Veber, D. (2013).
    Homogenization of heterogeneous Cauchy-elastic materials leads to Mindlin second-gradient elasticity
    Part II: Higher-order constitutive properties and application cases.
    Submitted, http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.2380

  4. Bigoni, D., Dal Corso, F., Bosi, F. and Misseroni, D. (2013).
    Eshelby-like forces acting on elastic structures: theoretical and experimental proof.
    Submitted.

  5. Misseroni, D., Dal Corso, F., Shahzad, S. and Bigoni, D. (2013).
    Stress concentration near rigid rectangular and rhombohedral inclusions by means of photoelasticity.
    Submitted.

  6. Dal Corso, F. and Deseri, L. (2013).
    Residual stresses in random elastic composites: nonlocal micromechanics-based models and first estimates of the representative volume element size.
    Meccanica, Accepted.

  7. Bigoni, D., Dal Corso, F., Misseroni D. and Tommasini, M. (2012).
    A teaching model for truss structures.
    European Journal of Physics, 33, 1179–1186.

  8. Dal Corso, F. and Willis, J.R. (2011).
    Stability of strain gradient plastic materials.
    Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 59, 1251-1267.

  9. Dal Corso, F. and Bigoni, D. (2010).
    Growth of slip surfaces and line inclusions along shear bands in a softening material.
    International Journal of Fracture, 166, 225-237.

  10. Noselli, G., Dal Corso, F. and Bigoni, D. (2010).
    The stress intensity near a stiffener disclosed by photoelasticity.
    International Journal of Fracture, 166, 91-103.

  11. Dal Corso, F. and Bigoni, D. (2009).
    The interactions between shear bands and rigid lamellar inclusions in a ductile metal matrix.
    Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 465, 143-163.

  12. Bigoni, D. and Dal Corso, F. (2008).
    The unrestrainable growth of a shear band in a prestressed material.
    Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 464, 2365-2390. Electronic supplementary material.

  13. Dal Corso, F., Bigoni, D. and Gei, M. (2008).
    The stress concentration near a rigid line inclusion in a prestressed, elastic material.
    Part I. Full field solution and asymptotics    .
    Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 56, 815-838.

  14. Bigoni, D., Dal Corso, F. and Gei, M. (2008).
    The stress concentration near a rigid line inclusion in a prestressed, elastic material.
    Part II. Implications on shear band nucleation, growth and energy release rate    .
    Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 56, 839-857.

Conference proceedings

  1. Dal Corso, F., Bigoni, D. and Gei, M. (2007).
    The Stress Concentration Near a Rigid Line Inclusion in a Prestressed, Elastic Materials.
    XVIII Congresso Nazionale dell'AIMETA, Brescia, Italy, September 11-14, 2007.

  2. Dal Corso, F., Bigoni, D. and Gei, M. (2007).
    The Stress Concentration Near a Rigid Line Inclusion in a Prestressed, Elastic Materials.
    International Symposium on Recent Advances in Mechanics, Dynamic Systems and Probability Theory - MDP 2007, Mondello (PA), Italy, June 3-6, 2007.

Invited talks

  1. Recent contributions in generalized continuum mechanics.
    School of Physical Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi (India), February 15, 2013.

  2. Localization in plastic materials in presence of energetic and dissipative strain gradient terms.
    Institute of Engineering Mechanics, Beijing Jaotong University, Beijing (China), August 17, 2012.

  3. Cracks, shear bands and lamellar inclusions in homogeneously prestressed materials.
    2nd International Workshop of Young Researchers on the Mechanics of Materials and Structures, Trieste (Italy), October 19-21, 2009.

  4. Softening and instability in strain-gradient plasticity.
    Institute of Mathematics and Physics, Aberystwyth University, Aberyswyth (UK), August 18, 2009.

Conference participations

  1. Dal Corso, F., Bacca, M., Bigoni, D. and Veber, D. (2013).
    Estimation of non-local parameters arising from composite materials homogenization.
    ICRACM 2013 - 4th Int. Conf. on Recent Advances in Composite Materials , Panaji, Goa (India). February 18-21, 2013.

  2. Dal Corso, F., Bigoni, D., Bosi, F. and Misseroni, D. (2012).
    Critical load of restabilization.
    BMIW 2012 - Chinese-Italian Bilateral Meeting on Mechanics, Hong Kong. August 28-29, 2012.

  3. Dal Corso, F., Bigoni, D., Bosi, F. and Misseroni, D. (2012).
    Stable trivial configuration of elastic systems after bifurcation.
    ICTAM 2012 - 23rd International Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Beijing (China). August 19-24, 2012.

  4. Dal Corso, F., Bigoni, D., Bosi, F. and Misseroni, D. (2012).
    Trivial Path after Bifurcation: from Unstable back to Stable Configuration.
    ESMC 2012 - 8th European Solid Mechanics Conference , Graz (Austria). July 9-13, 2012.

  5. Dal Corso, F., Bigoni, D., Bosi, F. and Misseroni, D. (2012).
    Self restabilization after buckling.
    GMA 2012 - VI Riunione del Gruppo Materiali dell’AIMETA, Lucca (Italy). April 12-13, 2012.

  6. Dal Corso, F. and Deseri, L. (2011).
    First estimates of the RVE size of random elastic composites with residual stresses.
    XX Congresso Associazione Italiana di Meccanica Teorica e Applicata, Bologna (Italy). September 12-15, 2011.

  7. Dal Corso, F. and Willis, J.R. (2011).
    Stability of strain-gradient plastic materials.
    XX Congresso Associazione Italiana di Meccanica Teorica e Applicata, Bologna (Italy). September 12-15, 2011.

  8. Dal Corso, F. and Deseri, L. (2011).
    Non-local constitutive equations for prestressed elastic random composites.
    V Riunione del Gruppo Materiali AIMETA (GMA2011), Udine (Italy), February 23-25, 2011.

  9. Dal Corso, F. and Willis, J.R. (2010).
    On the stability of the strain-gradient plastic materials.
    XVIII Convegno Italiano di Meccanica Computazionale, Siracusa (Italy), September 22-24, 2010.

  10. Dal Corso, F. and Willis, J.R. (2009).
    Localisation in strain-gradient plasticity.
    4th International Symposium on Defect and Material Mechanics, Trento (Italy), July 6-9, 2009.

  11. Bigoni, D., Dal Corso, F. e Gei, M. (2008).
    Rigid line inclusion in incremental elasticity.
    II Riunione del Gruppo Materiali AIMETA (GMA2008), Genova (Italy). February 29-March 1, 2008.

  12. Dal Corso, F., Bigoni, D. and Gei, M. (2007).
    Growth and energy release rate for a rigid line inclusion in a prestressed, elastic material.
    XVIII Congresso Associazione Italiana di Meccanica Teorica e Applicata, Brescia (Italy). September 11-14, 2007.

  13. Dal Corso, F., Bigoni, D. and Gei, M. (2007).
    The stress concentration near a rigid line inclusion in a prestressed material, with implications on shear bands.
    International Conference on Thermo-Mechanical Modeling of Solids, Paris (France). July 9-12, 2007.

  14. Dal Corso, F., Bigoni, D. and Gei, M. (2007).
    Brittle failure near a rigid line inclusion in a prestressed, elastic material.
    International Symposium on Recent Advances in Mechanics, Dynamical Systems and Probability Theory, Palermo (Italy). June 3-6, 2007.

  15. Gei, M., Dal Corso, F. and Bigoni, D. (2006).
    A Stiffener Embedded in a Pre-stressed, Elastic Material: Asymptotic and Full-field Solutions.
    SES 2006 - The 43rd Annual Meeting of the Society of Engineering Science Symposium in memory of R.S. Rivlin, Pennsylvania State University, August 13-16, 2006 .

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