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  1. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale e Geotecnica, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

    Francesco dell’Isola & Emilio Barchiesi

  2. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile, Edile-Architettura e Ambientale, Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy

    Francesco dell’Isola

  3. International Research Center for the Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems, L’Aquila, Italy

    Francesco dell’Isola, Emilio Barchiesi & Luca Placidi

  4. Facoltà di Ingegneria, Università telematica internazionale “UniNettuno”, Rome, Italy

    Luca Placidi

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dell’Isola, F., Barchiesi, E., Placidi, L. (2019). Levi-Civita, Tullio. In: Altenbach, H., Öchsner, A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Continuum Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-53605-6_297-1

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