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 …

In Mechanics, material properties are most often regarded as being given, and based on
this, many technical solutions are usually conceived and constructed. However, nowadays …

The aim of this paper is to find a computationally efficient and predictive model for the class
of systems that we call 'pantographic structures'. The interest in these materials was …

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 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 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 …

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 …

A linear elastic second gradient orthotropic two-dimensional solid that is invariant under 90^
∘ 90∘ rotation and for mirror transformation is considered. Such anisotropy is the most …

Mechanical behavior of materials with granular microstructures is confounded by unique
features of their grain-scale mechano-morphology, such as the tension–compression …