This article reviews continuum-based variational formulations for describing the elastic–
plastic deformation of anisotropic heterogeneous crystalline matter. These approaches …

Corrugation has long been seen as a simple and effective means of forming lightweight
structures with high anisotropic behaviour, stability under buckling load and energy …

Homogenization is a technique commonly used in multiscale computational science and
engineering for predicting collective response of heterogeneous materials and extracting …

The subject of computational plasticity encapsulates the numerical methods used for the
finite element simulation of the behaviour of a wide range of engineering materials …

Hard magnetorheological elastomers (h-MREs) are essentially two phase composites
comprising permanently magnetizable metallic inclusions suspended in a soft elastomeric …

Various multiscale methods are reviewed in the context of modelling mechanical and
thermomechanical responses of composites. They are developed both at the material level …

The contribution presents a new micro-mechanically based network model for the
description of the elastic response of rubbery polymers at large strains and considers details …

This work develops new minimization and saddle point principles for the coupled problem of
Darcy–Biot-type fluid transport in porous media at fracture. It shows that the quasi-static …

Written by the leading experts in computational materials science, this handy reference
concisely reviews the most important aspects of plasticity modeling: constitutive laws, phase …

The overall, macroscopic constitutive behavior of most materials of technological importance
such as fiber-reinforced composites or polycrystals is very much influenced by the …