Because of the covid-19 pandemia the workshop was cancelled.

An e-workshop organised on 08-09 April 2021 will provide an update on these topics, awaiting the next regular workshop which will be hopefully held in Alghero on 23-28 May 2022.

Mechanical architectured materials are designed to feature extreme or non-classical properties such as negative Poisson’s ratio or strain floppy modes. These emergent properties may require generalized continua such as strain-gradient or micromorphic continua in order to bring-out accurately the effective mechanical behavior.

The present workshop is dedicated to the understanding and the predictive modelling of these architectured materials. A particular attention will be paid to non-classical up-scaling methods, new topology optimization techniques, experimental characterization of the non-classical properties and the computational techniques required by generalized continua.

• Up-scaling methods for non-classical continua in mechanics (Monday 25^th)
• Fabrication and testing of non-classical continua (Tuesday 26^th) + social diner
• Topology optimization of Metamaterials (Wednesday 27^th)
• Computational and numerical aspects (Thursday 28^th)

• Graeme Milton (Department of Mathematics, University of Utah, USA)
• Martin Wegener, (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
• Valery P. Smyshlyaev (University College London, UK)
• Tomasz Lekszycki (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland)
• François Jouve (Université Paris-Diderot, France)

• Abstract, 31st March 2020,
• Registration, 30th April 2020

The workshop will have a limited number of participants. Please register as soon as possible.

Participation fees is 200€, and covers only coffee breaks and one social diner.

• IRP Coss&Vita (CNRS)
  
• M&MoCS (Universita dell’Aquila)
  
• ArchiMatHOS (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, grant ANR-17-CE08-0039)