This course explores advanced homogenization techniques for complex materials, with a specific emphasis on mechanical metamaterials. These materials, defined by their intricate microstructures, exhibit unconventional mechanical properties such as auxetic behavior, extreme stiffness, tunable elasticity, focusing and filtering elastic waves, among others. The course will cover most successful homogenization approaches, enabling the calculation of macroscopic properties from the microstructure, and their applications in the analysis and design of metamaterials. Through theoretical foundations and practical case studies, PhD students will gain some insights into cutting-edge methods for modeling and optimizing the mechanical behavior of these innovative materials.
July 14-15, 2025 - 9:00am-12:00am
The course will take place in blended mode: in presence at the Aula Caveau - DISG, Faculty of Architecture, via Antonio Gramsci 53, Rome and online via Zoom.
For all courses supplied by the PhD Program of the DISG credits are not provided: a certificate of in person attendance will be produced upon request (only after a check of the effective presence). Certificate of online attendance will not be provided.