A novel multiscale strategy is proposed for the damage analysis of masonry structures
modeled as periodic composites. Such a computational strategy, whose aim is to reduce the …

A comprehensive characterization of the novel class of anti-tetrachiral cellular solids, both
considering the static and the dynamic response, is provided in the paper. The …

Different scale approaches, micromechanical, multiscale and macromechanical or
phenomenological, are presented to study the structural response of masonry elements …

The use of multifunctional composite materials adopting piezo-electric periodic cellular
lattice structures with auxetic elastic behavior is a recent and promising solution in the …

In the present work, the evolution of damage in periodic composite materials is investigated
through a novel finite element-based multiscale computational approach. The proposed …

This study proposes a multi-field asymptotic homogenization for the analysis of thermo-
piezoelectric materials with periodic microstructures. The effect of the microstructural …

An anisotropic continuum-molecular model based on pair potentials for describing the linear
static and dynamic behavior of periodic heterogeneous Cauchy materials is derived in the …

A micropolar-based asymptotic homogenization approach for the analysis of composite
materials with periodic microstructure is proposed. The upscaling relations, conceived to …

Several composite materials used in engineering–such as ceramic/metal matrix composites,
concrete, masonry-like/geo–materials and innovative meta–materials–have internal micro …

We introduce a new rheological nonlinear model for some granular media such as
masonries. The latter may demonstrate a rather complex behaviour. In fact, considering a …