Developments in design and technology in the engineering and medical fields necessitate the use of smart and high-performance materials to meet higher engineering specifications …
In recent years, auxetic (negative Poisson's ratio) structures have attracted great attention because of their non-conventional behaviour. However, auxetic structures are usually …
The static stability of auxetic truncated conical sandwich shells reinforced by stiffeners surrounded by elastic foundations is investigated. The shells are made from two isotropic …
R Brighenti, A Spagnoli, M Lanfranchi… - Fatigue & Fracture of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Recent frontiers in material development are represented by a class of so‐called auxetic metamaterials that, thanks to their structure rather than composition, are characterized by a …
R Brighenti - Thin-Walled Structures, 2014 - Elsevier
The development of smart structures, aimed at optimizing the response of engineering systems, is a modern and very promising field. Such advanced structural element can be …
In micromechanical modeling of composites, it is well known that the Voigt formula or the rule-of-mixture method gives the most general upper bound estimate of the effective Young's …
Contact mechanics and its accompanying description of stress and displacement fields is of great practical importance. This chapter begins by identifying the uniqueness of line and …