Even though the development of novel materials that mimic nature is widely used in a variety
of engineering and scientific fields, the relationship between effective material properties
and underlying, often complex pore morphology is still not fully understood. To address this
knowledge gap and accelerate the development of novel nature-inspired materials, this
paper adopts a higher-order asymptotic homogenization method to numerically investigate
the effect of complex micropore morphology on the effective mechanical properties of a …