Generalized continuum mechanical theories such as second gradient elasticity can consider
size and localization effects, which motivates their use for multiscale modeling of periodic …

Numerical modeling of masonry structures is nowadays still an active research field, and this
is partly due to a number of open issues related to preservation and restoration of historical …

Historical masonry structures have a great interest in civil engineering because they
constitute a large part of the world's building heritage. In this paper, the effects that different …

A novel two-scale modeling approach, linking different structural models at macro and
microscale, is proposed to describe response of masonry walls with periodic texture. At the …

The use of multifunctional composite materials adopting piezo-electric periodic cellular
lattice structures with auxetic elastic behavior is a recent and promising solution in the …

In the last decades the modeling of masonry structures has become an argument particularly
appealing for many researchers and a large variety of numerical techniques have been …

We present a two–steps multiscale procedure suitable to describe the constitutive behavior
of hierarchically structured particle composites. The complex material is investigated …

The free propagation of acoustic plane waves through cellular periodic materials is
generally accompanied by a flow of mechanical energy across the adjacent cells. The paper …

An anisotropic continuum-molecular model based on pair potentials for describing the linear
static and dynamic behavior of periodic heterogeneous Cauchy materials is derived in the …

A micropolar-based asymptotic homogenization approach for the analysis of composite
materials with periodic microstructure is proposed. The upscaling relations, conceived to …