Starting from the seminal works of Toupin, Mindlin and Germain, a wide class of generalized
elastic models have been proposed via the principle of virtual work, by postulating …

Biological tissues are complex hierarchical materials, difficult to characterise due to the
challenges associated to the separation of scale and heterogeneity of the mechanical …

A continuum theory of pantographic lattices, based on second-grade elasticity, is presented.
The proposed model is able to describe the mechanical behavior of a type of material …

Abstract Background Digital Volume correlation (DVC) consists in identifying the
displacement fields that allow for the best possible registration of volume images of a …

Pantographic blocks are metamaterials made of a finite number of parallel pantographic
sheets interconnected by cylindrical pivots. In this paper, a pantographic block subjected to …

We postulate a deformation energy for describing the mechanical behavior of so called
pantographic blocks, that is bodies constituted by stacking of N layers of pantographic …

In this paper, we aim to explore the mechanical potentialities of a material made of an
orthogonal net of fibers arranged in logarithmic spirals. Therefore, an annular plate …

La «Méchanique» Analytique a été une théorie controversée depuis sa formulation par
Lagrange en 1788 et la controverse se poursuit jusqu'à nos jours: Truesdell déclare que la …

In the present work, the mechanical response of a fiber network metamaterial was studied
when subjected to 3-point flexure. To account for the initial deformation of the sample due to …

Kresling tube metamaterials are well known to exhibit a chirality-dependent exotic
mechanical feature: a shortening or lengthening in the direction of the tube's axis produces a …