Masonry structures, although classically suitable to withstand gravitational loads, are
sensibly vulnerable if subjected to extraordinary actions such as earthquakes, exhibiting …

The design of periodic microstructural composite materials to achieve specific properties has
been a major area of interest in material research. Tailoring different physical properties by …

The homogenization of periodic hexachiral and tetrachiral honeycombs is dealt with two
different techniques. The first is based on a micropolar homogenization. The second …

A methodology for the construction of effective strain gradient media for heterogeneous
materials is proposed, combining a variational principle in linear elasticity with the extended …

Although “classical” multi-scale methods can capture the behaviour of cellular, including
lattice, materials, when considering lattices or metamaterial local instabilities, corresponding …

A computational homogenization method to determine the effective parameters of Mindlin's
Strain Gradient Elasticity (SGE) model from a local heterogeneous Cauchy linear material is …

In this paper we model the size-effects of metamaterial beams under bending with the aid of
the relaxed micromorphic continuum. We analyze first the size-dependent bending stiffness …

The homogenization-based streamline stiffener path optimization (SSPO) method was
previously proposed by the authors for stiffener layout design of non-uniform curved grid …

A comprehensive characterization of the novel class of anti-tetrachiral cellular solids, both
considering the static and the dynamic response, is provided in the paper. The …

We determine the material parameters in the relaxed micromorphic generalized continuum
model for a given periodic microstructure in this work. This is achieved through a least …