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Massimiliano Fraldi

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Unveiling scaling laws for wrinkling in compressed fiber-reinforced bilayers at any elastic mismatch

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 20 Oct 2025
Andrea Mirandola, Angelo Rosario Carotenuto, Arsenio Cutolo, Stefania Palumbo, Massimiliano Fraldi and Luca Deseri
University of Trento, affiliation not provided to SSRN, - Department of Structural Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Trento
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Scaling laws for wrinkling, Wrinkling of fiber-reinforced bilayers, Regime-transition in wrinkling, Symmetry-breaking in wrinkling, Wrinkling instabilities

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How caterpillar crawling gait takes advantage of non-linear elasticity

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 28 Feb 2026
Mario Argenziano, Gaia Prezioso, Massimiliano Zingales and Massimiliano Fraldi
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, University of Palermo and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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caterpillar locomotion, interplay adhesion–elasticity, crawling gait, largedeformations, non-linear elasticity, neo-Hookean model

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Diatomic Nonlocal One-Dimensional Chains from Mass-Shift Induced Defects

Number of pages: 126 Posted: 29 Jul 2025
Flavia Guarracino, Massimiliano Fraldi and Nicola Pugno
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Trento - Laboratory of Bioinspired, Bionic, Nano, Meta, Materials & Mechanics
Downloads 32 (1,304,549)

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wave propagation, tuneable metamaterials, mass-spring chain, mass conservation, defects

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Stress Equalizing in Optimal Design of High-Toughness Lattice Structures

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 29 Dec 2023
Luca Esposito, Arsenio Cutolo, V. Minutolo, Elio Sacco and Massimiliano Fraldi
University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” - Department of Engineering, - Department of Structural Engineering, Engineering Department, University of Campania “L.Vanvitelli”, Via Roma 29 - 81031, Aversa (CE), Italy, University of Naples Federico II and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Optimization, lattice system, stress intensity factor, crack propagation, Metamaterials

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Steering Cracks Via Auxetic Zebra-Composites

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 13 Jun 2025
Simone Palladino, Massimiliano Fraldi, V. Minutolo and Luca Esposito
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Engineering Department, University of Campania “L.Vanvitelli”, Via Roma 29 - 81031, Aversa (CE), Italy and University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli” - Department of Engineering
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Fracture Mechanics, composites, Crack propagation, Auxetic Media, finite element