The construction of regularization operators presented in this work is based on the
introduction of strain or damage micromorphic degrees of freedom in addition to the …

In this article, we present the technical realisation for visualisations of characteristic
parameters of the fourth-order elasticity tensor, which is classified by three-dimensional …

Smart composites (SCs) are utilized in electro-mechanical systems such as actuators and
energy harvesters. Typically, thin-walled components such as beams, plates, and shells are …

Strain gradient theory is an accurate model for capturing the size effect and localization
phenomena. However, the challenge in identification of corresponding constitutive …

The homogenization of periodic hexachiral and tetrachiral honeycombs is dealt with two
different techniques. The first is based on a micropolar homogenization. The second …

Mindlin's second strain gradient continuum theory for isotropic linear elastic materials is
used to model two different kinds of size-dependent surface effects observed in the …

Although already suggested in the middle of the 19th century, have material models that
include higher gradients of the kinematical variables become a blossoming field of research …

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

In the present paper spaces of fifth-order tensors involved in bidimensional strain gradient
elasticity are studied. As a result complete sets of matrices representing these tensors in …

A computational homogenization method to determine the effective parameters of Mindlin's
Strain Gradient Elasticity (SGE) model from a local heterogeneous Cauchy linear material is …