563 – Generalized Continua and their application to the design of composites and metamaterials
Date:
17 March 2014 – 21 March 2014
Location:
Cisterna di Latina (Rome), Italy
Chairperson:
Prof. Francesco dell’Isola
Università di Roma La Sapienza
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Strutturale e Geotecnica
Via Eudossiana 18
00184 Rome, Italy
phone: +39 06 90286784
email: francesco.dellisola@uniroma1.it
Co-chairperson
Prof. Samuel Forest
Centre des Matériaux - MINES Paristech
CNRS UMR 7633
10 rue Henri Desbruères, BP 87
F-91003 Evry Cedex, France
phone: +33 01 6076 3051
fax: +33 01 6076 3150
email: samuel.forest@mines-paristech.fr
Main Topics :
- General concepts for second and higher gradient media
- Phenomenology of existing and designed composites and metamaterials
- Homogenization techniques and related numerical and mathematical problems
- Beams and plates constituted by metamaterials
- Strain and stress localization phenomena
- Dynamic behavior of metamaterials and composites
- Acoustic properties of metamaterials and composites
- Generalized continua in Biomechanics and mechanics of growing tissues
- Damage and fracture in generalized continua