Fractals and Randomness in Mechanics of Materials

These notes provide an introduction to two aspects of mechanics of materials: (i) effects of randomness on scaling to effective constitutive responses and (ii) fractal geometries. The first aspect is relevant when the separation of scales does not hold [i

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Tomasz Sadowski Patrizia Trovalusci Editors

Multiscale Modeling of Complex Materials Phenomenological, Theoretical and Computational Aspects

International Centre for Mechanical Sciences

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The series presents lecture notes, monographs, edited works and proceedings in the Àeld of Mechanics, Engineering, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics. Purpose of the series is to make known in the international scientiÀc and technical community results obtained in some of the activities organized by CISM, the International Centre for Mechanical Sciences.

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Tomasz Sadowski · Patrizia Trovalusci Editors

Multiscale Modeling of Complex Materials Phenomenological, Theoretical and Computational Aspects

Editors Tomasz Sadowski Lublin University of Technology, Poland Patrizia Trovalusci “Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy

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