Tensegrity Systems: Basic Concepts, Mechanical Metamaterials, Biotensegrity

Fernando Fraternali is Professor of Structural Mechanics in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Salerno, Italy. Most of his research work concerns multiscale modeling and simulation of solids and structures, the nonlinear dynamics of materials and structures, and the design and engineering of sustainable materials at multiple scales. Prof. Fraternali was awarded a Fulbright Research Scholarship for the academic year 2005/06, and has been Visiting Professor at the California Institute of Technology since September 2005, and at the University of California, San Diego. He serves as Associate Editor of “Mechanics Research Communications” and “Frontiers in Materials”.

Julain J. Rimoli earned his master’s and doctoral degrees in aeronautics from Caltech in 2005 and 2009, respectively. Following his graduation, Rimoli joined the MIT Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics as a postdoctoral associate. In 2011, he went to Georgia Tech, where he was the Pratt & Whitney Professor of Aerospace Engineering until joining the University of California Irvine in 2022. His research involves the computational mechanics of materials and structures, with special interest in problems involving multiple length and time scales, and in the development of theories and computational techniques for seamlessly bridging them. Rimoli is an associate fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, winner of an NSF CAREER Award and a recipient of the Donald W. Douglas Prize Fellowship and Ernest E. Sechler Memorial Award in Aeronautics.