Metamaterials are materials especially engineered to have a peculiar physical behaviour, to
be exploited for some well-specified technological application. In this context we focus on …

Gabrio Piola's scientific papers have been underestimated in mathematical physics
literature. Indeed, a careful reading of them proves that they are original, deep and far …

The book presents foundations of the micropolar continuum mechanics including a short but
comprehensive introduction of stress and strain measures, derivation of motion equations …

In this paper a stationary action principle is proved to hold for capillary fluids, ie fluids for
which the deformation energy has the form suggested, starting from molecular arguments …

This book is dedicated to readers who want to learn fluid dynamics from the beginning. It
assumes a basic level of mathematics knowledge that would correspond to that of most …

Below we discuss the derivation of the governing nonlinear shell equations taking into
account the surface stresses. The surface effects are significant for the modeling of some …

Laminated plates with glass skin layers and a core layer from soft polymers are widely used
in the civil engineering. Photovoltaic panels currently available on the market are composed …

In this paper we employ the direct approach to the theory of rods and beams, which is based
on the deformable curve model with a triad of rotating directors attached to each point. We …

Strain localization is a common phenomenon existing in various multiscale materials or
structures, eg, the bulking bands of thin-walled structures, the local collapse of porous …

A state-based peridynamic formulation for linear elastic shells is presented. The emphasis is
on introducing, possibly for the first time, a general surface based peridynamic model to …