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6 lectures on: Tension field theory, inflatable membranes; localised wrinkling and necking. Wrinkling and morphogenesis: theory of growth and remodelling; semi-analytical methods (Stroh formulation and Riccati equation); application to gastrointestinal an

7 lectures on: Wrinkling during forming of textile-reinforced composites: unit cell analyses; simulation of draping – examination of the role of tensile, in-plane shear, and bending stiffness; hysteretic models; thermal history and strain rate effects. Pr

6 lectures on: Wrinkling in a film/substrate bilayer and surface instabilities: exact linear and weakly nonlinear analyses under the framework of nonlinear elasticity; categorisation of bifurcation/wrinkling behaviour; effect of a prestretch; period-doubl

6 lectures on: Wrinkling and Creasing of elastic thin films on viscoelastic substrates and constrained dielectric elastomers - a kinetic approach: wrinkle patterns; wrinkling-induced delamination; rate-dependent wrinkling and subsequent bifurcations; wrin

6 lectures on: Skin biomechanics and computational simulations of skin wrinkles: the hierarchical structure of the skin (microstructural and material properties); skin wrinkles and mechanobiology; constitutive modelling; finite element procedures for skin

5 lectures on: Introduction; shear web and tension field theories; wrinkles in stretched thin elastic structures - fundamentally different causes; mode jumping; wrinkling in thin-strip rolling; face layer wrinkling in sandwich structures; small experiment