Paolo Podio-Guidugli

Professor
Degree: Nuclear Engineering, University of Pisa, 1964

Office: Department of Civil Engineering, building B, 2nd floor
Phone: +39 06 7259 7051 Fax: +39 06 7259 7052
E-mail:
ppg@uniroma2.it


Research

My research interests are in the field of rational continuum mechanics, with special attention for engineering applications as well as, occasionally, for foundational issues [1-3]. In recent years I have developped an interest for modelling and analysing problems originally posed by materials scientists, such as phase interfaces in motion (in particular, crystal growth, crack propagation, and peeling) [4-7]. I am also working in the dynamics of deformable ferromagnets, with special attention for the partial differential equations that govern their evolution [8-11]. Another line of research I am currently busy with has to do with electroelastic and magnetoelastic actuators and sensors, and micromachining, that is, the study of miniature structures under form of rods, plates, and shells undergoing large and rapid deformations under the action of not always standard loads [12-14]. Finally, in the last year or so, I have been also working at modelling the effects of strain on the normal-to-super transition in high-Tc superconductors [15].


Recent Selected Publications

  1. Inertia and invariance, Annali di Matematica Pura e Applicata (IV), Volume CLXXII, pp. 103-124 (1997)
  2. On the representation of energy and momentum in elasticity, Mathematical Methods and Models in Applied Sciences, Volume 10 (2), pp. 203-216 (2000) (with S. Sellers and G. Vergara Caffarelli)
  3. A Primer in Elasticity, Special Invited Presentation, Journal of Elasticity, Volume 58 (1), pp. 1-103 (2000). To be published in book form by Kluwer Academic Publishers (2000)
  4. On radial growth in crystallization theories of hyperbolic nature, pp. 150-167 of Motion by Mean Curvature and Related Topics, Proceedings of the International Conference held in Trento, July 20-24, 1992. G. Buttazzo & A. Visintin Ed.s, de Gruyter: Berlin - New York, 1994 (with G. Vergara Caffarelli)
  5. On configurational inertial forces at a phase interface, Journal of Elasticity, Volume 44, pp. 255-269 (1996) (with M.E. Gurtin)
  6. Configurational forces and a constitutive theory for crack propagation that allows for kinking and curving, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Volume 46 (2), pp. 1-36 (1998) (with M.E. Gurtin)
  7. Configurational balances via variational arguments, to appear in Interfaces and Free Boundaries (2000)
  8. On the continuum theory of deformable ferromagnetic solids, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis, Volume 136, pp. 201-233 (1996) (with A. DeSimone)
  9. Pointwise balances and the construction of stress fields in dielectrics, Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences, Volume 7 (4), pp. 477-485 (1997) (with A. DeSimone)
  10. On the dynamics of deformable ferromagnets. I. Global weak solutions for soft ferromagnets at rest, to appear in Annali di Matematica Pura e Applicata (1999)
  11. Existence of global-in-time weak solutions to a modified Gilbert equation, to appear in Nonlinear Analysis. Theory, Methods & Applications (2000) (with V. Valente)
  12. Piezoelectric plates with changing thickness, Journal of Structural Control, Volume 5 (2), pp. 73-86 (1998) (with V. Nicotra)
  13. Thickness waves in electroelastic plates, to appear in Wave Motion (2000) (with G. Tomassetti)
  14. Shells with thickness distension, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Volume 38/6, pp. 7405-7429 (2001) (with A. DiCarlo and W.O.Williams)
  15. Deformation effects in epitaxial films of high-temperature superconductors, in preparation (2000) (with P. Cermelli)

Complete List of Publications


Revised: Friday, Oct 20, 2000