AIMS AND CONTENTS
Advanced mechanical modeling for the analysis of composite and microstructured materials
STATE OF ART - Complex materials, both innovative (fiber composites, nanostructured, porous or textured media) and traditional (concrete and masonry-like materials), must meet the demand for high performance in different fields of engineering and technology. Multiscale and multiphysics modeling and simulation for these materials, with internal structure and complex constitutive behavior, provides a sound base for many challenging structural engineering applications STATE OF THE ART -
WORK - Development of theoretical and computational strategies for the modelling and simulation of complex materials, with internal structure and complex constitutive behaviour, are preformed via multiscale and multifield approaches. The scale transition strategies, establishing direct relationships between discrete models/heterogeneous continua and non-simple continuous models (homogenization techniques) allowed us to derive constitutive models preserving memory of the microstructure, suitable for the description of the static and dynamic behaviour of composite-material structures.