The problem of effective properties of material microstructures has received considerable
attention over the past half a century. By effective (or overall, macroscopic, global) is meant …

A multitude of composite materials ranging from polycrystals to rocks, concrete, and masonry
overwhelmingly display random morphologies. While it is known that a Cosserat …

We discuss the material symmetry group of the micropolar continuum and related
consistently simplified constitutive equations. Following Eremeyev and Pietraszkiewicz (Int J …

Concrete is a heterogeneous material whose constituents (eg, hydrated cement paste,
aggregate etc.) ranges from a characteristic length-scale of a few nanometres to metre …

While crack nucleation and propagation in the brittle or quasi-brittle regime can be predicted
via variational or material-force-based phase field fracture models, these models often …

In this paper, a novel adaptive multiscale model is proposed for accurately predicting the
nonlinear mechanical response of periodic brick masonry due to crack initiation and …

This study presents a physically-consistent displacement-driven reformulation of the concept
of action-at-a-distance, which is at the foundation of nonlocal elasticity. In contrast to the …

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

Mechanical behaviour of particle composite materials is growing of interest to engineering
applications. A computational homogenization procedure in conjunction with a statistical …

Several composite materials used in engineering–such as ceramic/metal matrix composites,
concrete, masonry-like/geo–materials and innovative meta–materials–have internal micro …