Tough natural materials such as nacre, bone, and silk exhibit multiscale hierarchical
structures where distinct toughening mechanisms occur at each level of the hierarchy …

In energy absorption applications, architectured metallic materials generally suffer from
unrecoverable deformation as a result of local yield damage or inelastic buckling. Nitinol …

Despite the high microstructural heterogeneity of fiber-reinforced composites, few modeling
framework provides a comprehensive and detailed understanding of the failure mechanisms …

The recent decades have seen various attempts at the numerical modelling of fibre-
reinforced polymer (FRP) composites in the aerospace, auto and marine sectors due to their …

In the present report some basic issues of and some of the modeling strategies used for
studying static and quasistatic problems in continuum micromechanics of materials are …

Developing a high-fidelity stochastic multi-scale modelling framework that can capture the
structure–property relationship in a computationally efficient manner is of interest to the …

A hierarchical multiscale framework has been developed to predict the impact response of
3D braided composites, in which a bridging model (unit cell model), was employed as a …

AA7075 is of special interest amongst aluminum alloys for structural applications in
automotive and aerospace industries because of its higher strength. Due to advances in …

Mechanical metamaterials and metastructures exhibit superior effective mechanical
properties, such as enhanced energy dissipation and resistance against impact loads …

The intralaminar crack propagation of unidirectional glass fiber reinforced polymer
composite (GFRP) laminate has been investigated by quasi-static tensile/compression …