A review on models for pantographic fabrics, a new promising kind of metamaterials, is
presented. We treat those models that are able to capture the peculiar effects conferred by …

In this paper, we give a targeted review of the state of the art in the study of planar elastic
beams in large deformations, also in the presence of geometric nonlinearities. The main …

Hencky (Über die angenäherte Lösung von Stabilitätsproblemen im Raum mittels der
elastischen Gelenkkette. Ph. D. thesis, Engelmann, 1921) proposed a discrete model for …

The global response of experimental uniaxial tests cannot be homogeneous, because of the
unavoidable presence of localized deformations, which is always preferential from an …

We determine the effective behavior of periodic structures made of welded elastic bars.
Taking into account the fact that flexural and torsional stiffnesses are much smaller than the …

In this paper we consider linear pantographic sheets, which in their natural configuration are
constituted by two orthogonal arrays of straight fibers interconnected by internal pivots. We …

In this paper, we exploit some results in the theory of irreversible phenomena to address the
study of quasi-static brittle fracture propagation in a two-dimensional isotropic continuum …

The work investigates the vibration behaviour of anisogrid composite lattice shell structures,
typically formed by a system of geodesic unidirectional composite ribs. A homogenization …

The well-posedness of the boundary value problems for second gradient elasticity has been
studied under the assumption of strong ellipticity of the dependence on the second …

In this paper, we formulate a linear elastic second gradient isotropic two-dimensional
continuum model accounting for irreversible damage. The failure is defined as the condition …