The problem of effective properties of material microstructures has received considerable
attention over the past half a century. By effective (or overall, macroscopic, global) is meant …

ABSTRACT A two-step strategy for the mechanical analysis of unreinforced masonry (URM)
structures, subjected to either in-or out-of-plane loading, is presented. At a first step, a semi …

An overview of the author's works, many of which were carried out in collaboration, is
presented. The first part concerns the quantification of uncertainties for complex engineering …

The design of metamaterials brings the possibility of realizing novel properties beyond
traditional materials. The coupling effects between tension/compression and torsion can be …

We discuss the material symmetry group of the micropolar continuum and related
consistently simplified constitutive equations. Following Eremeyev and Pietraszkiewicz (Int J …

Although “classical” multi-scale methods can capture the behaviour of cellular, including
lattice, materials, when considering lattices or metamaterial local instabilities, corresponding …

In this article, the size-dependent behavior of micro-beams with the thermoelastic damping
(TED) phenomenon is studied. The coupled thermoelasticity equations are derived on the …

Abstract Classical Finite-Element and Discrete-Element strategies are expensive to carry
when analysing masonry structures in the inelastic range, under a seismic excitation, and …

Masonry structures constitute a large portion of the built heritage around the world, from the
past until today. There-fore, understanding their structural behavior is crucial for preserving …

The physics of spatial material randomness in CFRP composites is incorporated in a
concurrent multiscale modeling framework. A sampling based non-intrusive approach is …