Ultralight membrane structures towards a sustainable environment

Project Information

LIGHTEN

Grant agreement ID: 956547

DOI

10.3030/956547

Project closed

EC signature date 15 July 2020

Start date 1 November 2020

End date 30 April 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 1 382 415,01

EU contribution

€ 1 382 415,01

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
United Kingdom

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Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

LIGTHEN website

Development of the project website

Documents, reports (2)

Training activities report

Training activities report, with intermediate periodic reports at M9, M18 and M30

PhD thesis

PhD theses completion for each ESR

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (11)

Direct stress computations in arbitrarily shaped thin shells and elliptic bulge tests

Author(s): Khurram Suleman and Federico Bosi
Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Issue Vol 478 (2268), 2022, ISSN 1364-5021
Publisher: Royal Society of London
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2022.0619

Multi-objective parametric optimisation of architected hexagonal honeycomb with stepped struts

Author(s): F.I. Azam, P.J. Tan, F. Bosi
Published in: Materials & Design, Issue 250, 2025, Page(s) 113569, ISSN 0264-1275
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2024.113569

Pentagonal photonic crystal mirrors: scalable lightsails with enhanced acceleration via neural topology optimization

Author(s): Lucas Norder, Shunyu Yin, Matthijs H. J. de Jong, Francesco Stallone, Hande Aydogmus, Paolo M. Sberna, Miguel A. Bessa, Richard A. Norte
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, Page(s) 2753, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57749-y

Multiaxial characterisation and nonlinear thermoviscoelastic isotropic and orthotropic constitutive models of ETFE membranes

Author(s): Alessandro Comitti, Federico Bosi
Published in: Construction and Building Materials, Issue 457, 2025, Page(s) 139147, ISSN 0950-0618
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.conbuildmat.2024.139147

Failure through crack propagation in components with holesand notches: an experimental assessment of the phase eldmodel

Author(s): R. Cavuotoa , P. Lenardab , D. Misseronic , M. Paggib , D. Bigonia,
Published in: International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2022, ISSN 1879-2146
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2022.111798

Finite strain elastoplastic bulging of circular diaphragms

Author(s): Khurram Suleman, Federico Bosi
Published in: International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2023, ISSN 1879-2146
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2023.112148

Thermomechanical characterisation and plane stress linear viscoelastic modelling of ethylene-tetra-fluoroethylene foils

Author(s): Alessandro Comitti, Federico Bosi
Published in: Mechanics of Time-Dependent Materials, 2024, ISSN 1385-2000
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11043-024-09704-5

Bayesian optimisation of hexagonal honeycomb metamaterial

Author(s): I. Kuszczak a, F.I. Azam a, M.A. Bessa b, P.J. Tan a, F. Bosi
Published in: Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2023, ISSN 2352-4316
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.eml.2023.102078

In-plane pipe whip: Post-failure dynamic response

Author(s): D. Schiano Moriello; F. Bosi; R. Torii; P.J. Tan
Published in: International Journal of Solids and Structures, Issue Vol 254-255, 2022, ISSN 0020-7683
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2022.111860

Experimental realization of tunable Poisson’s ratio in deployable origami metamaterials

Author(s): Diego Misseroni, Phanisri P. Pratapa, Ke Liu, Glaucio H.Paulino
Published in: Extreme Mechanics Letters, Issue Vol 53, 2022, ISSN 2352-4316
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
DOI: 10.1016/j.eml.2022.101685

Configurational forces in penetration processes

Author(s): Davide Bigoni, Marco Amato & Francesco Dal Corso
Published in: Solid (Bio)mechanics: Challenges of the Next Decade, Issue Vol 24, 2022, Page(s) 429 - 437, ISSN 1868-2006
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-92339-6_19

Book chapters (2)

Configurational forces on elastic structures

Author(s): Davide Bigoni, Federico Bosi, Francesco Dal Corse, Diego Misseroni
Published in: 50+ Years of AIMETA, 2022, Page(s) 229 - 241
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-94195-6_14

Ultralight membrane structures towards a sustainable environment

Author(s): Alessandro Comitti, Harikrishnan Vijayakumaran, Mohammad Hosein Nejabatmeimandi, Luis Seixas, Adrian Cabello, Diego Misseroni, Massimo Penasa, Christoph Paech, Miguel Bessa, Adam C. Bown, Francesco Dal Corso, and Federico Bosi
Published in: Sustainable Structures and Buildings, 2024, ISBN 978-3-031-46688-5
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-46688-5

Conference proceedings (2)

Advancing the Design of Sustainable ETFE Membrane Structures: Insights from the Lighten Consortium Project

Author(s): Mohammad Hosein Nejabatmeimandi, Alessandro Comitti, Luis Seixas, Adrian Cabello, Adam Bown
Published in: Proceedings of the TensiNet Symposium 2023, 2023
Publisher: TensiNet Association and Nantes Université

Characterisation and Modelling of ETFE Membranes for Tensile

Author(s): L. Seixas, A. Comitti, M. Penasa, F. Bosi
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Proceedings of the IASS 2024 Symposium

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

Interactions between multiple rigid lamellae in a ductile metal matrix: shear band magnification and attenuation in localization patterns

Author(s): Giarola, Diana; Dal Corso, Francesco; Capuani, Domenico; Bigoni, Davide
Published in: Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Issue Vol 165, 2022, ISSN 0022-5096
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2022.104925

Consistent machine learning for topology optimization with microstructure-dependent neural network material models

Author(s): Harikrishnan Vijayakumaran, Jonathan B. Russ, Glaucio H. Paulino, Miguel A. Bessa
Published in: Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, Issue 196, 2025, Page(s) 106015, ISSN 0022-5096
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2024.106015

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Thermoviscoelastic characterisation and modelling of ETFE foils for tensile structures

Author(s): A.Comitti
Published in: 2025
Publisher: UCL Discovery