Mechanical metamaterials are a class of artificial materials whose geometry is engineered to
have peculiar mechanical properties or programmed responses that are difficult to find in …

Quasibrittle materials endowed with (statistically) self-similar hierarchical microstructures
show distinct failure patterns that deviate from the standard scenario of damage …

We investigate interface failure of model materials representing architected thin films in
contact with heterogeneous substrates. We find that, while systems with statistically isotropic …

Creep failure of hierarchical materials is investigated by simulation of beam network models.
Such models are idealizations of hierarchical fibrous materials where bundles of load …

Hierarchical microstructures are often invoked to explain the high resilience and fracture
toughness of biological materials such as bone and nacre. Biomimetic material models …

Hierarchical materials are complex, multi-scale systems where structural patterns are
repeated across scales in a self-similar fashion. Hierarchical microstructural patterns are …