Since the beginning of the industrial age, material performance and design have been in the
midst of innovation of many disruptive technologies. Today's electronics, space, medical …

Composite materials and structures are inherently inhomogeneous and anisotropic across
multiple scales. Multiscale modelling offers opportunities to understand the coupling of …

This article focuses on computational multiscale methods for the mechanical response of
nonlinear heterogeneous materials. After a short historical note, a brief overview is given of …

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

This article presents a multifield asymptotic homogenization scheme for the analysis of
Bloch wave propagation in non-standard thermoelastic periodic materials, leveraging on the …

The description of the mechanical behaviour of brick/block masonry through equivalent
continua is presented here as a paradigmatic example of the problem of gross modelling of …

An accurate and fast failure simulation for masonry walls is still an active field of research,
due to its fundamental role in predicting the overall response of masonry structures under …

The macroscopic behavior of materials with anisotropic microstructure described as
micropolar continua is investigated in the present work. Micropolar continua are …

The mechanical behaviour of complex materials, characterised at finer scales by the
presence of heterogeneities of significant size and texture, strongly depends on their …

A procedure for second‐order computational homogenization of heterogeneous materials is
derived from the unit cell homogenization, in which an appropriate representation of the …