Soft solids - Département de Physique de l'Ecole Normale supérieure

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Soft solids

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Enseignants : Matteo Ciccotti (SIMM, ESPCI), Benoit Roman (PMMH, ESPCI)

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Nombre d’ECTS : 3

Langue d’enseignement : Anglais
Modalité d’évaluation : l’examen est divisé en deux parties :
1) Un examen oral de 30 minutes, portant sur un article à lire avant
2) Un séance de soutenance des mini-projets expérimentaux (présentation de 8 minutes par binôme, suivis de questions).
Les oraux se feront en distanciel en cas de fermeture des universités

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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.

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