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Overview

Luca Placidi is affiliated with UniNettuno University in Italy. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Materials Science, with a significant focus on several specialized subfields. These include Mechanics of Materials, Materials Chemistry, Civil and Structural Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

The scientist's work covers a variety of main topics within these fields. Among these are:

  • Nonlocal and gradient elasticity in micro/nano structures
  • Rock Mechanics and Modeling
  • Numerical methods in engineering
  • Structural Analysis and Optimization
  • Composite Structure Analysis and Optimization
  • Elasticity and Material Modeling
  • Composite Material Mechanics

Luca Placidi has contributed to the academic literature through publications in frequent venues such as Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems, Mechanics Research Communications, and the International Journal of Solids and Structures.

Some of the recent papers coauthored or authored include:

  • Micromechanics-based elasto-plastic-damage energy formulation for strain gradient solids with granular microstructure, 2021, Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics
  • Hemivariational continuum approach for granular solids with damage-induced anisotropy evolution, 2020, Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids
  • Identification of a geometrically nonlinear micromorphic continuum via granular micromechanics, 2021, Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik
  • Chiral metamaterial predicted by granular micromechanics: verified with 1D example synthesized using additive manufacturing, 2020, Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics
  • Granular micromechanics-based identification of isotropic strain gradient parameters for elastic geometrically nonlinear deformations, 2021, ZAMM - Journal of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics / Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Luca Placidi include:

  • Anil Misra
  • Emilio Barchiesi
  • Francesco Fabbrocino
  • Francesco dell'Isola
  • D. V. Timofeev

Luca Placidi has also contributed to book publications, including titles published by Cambridge University Press and Springer International Publishing. Notable works include Discrete and Continuum Models for Complex Metamaterials (2020) and Theoretical Analyses, Computations, and Experiments of Multiscale Materials (2022).

Best Publications

  • At the origins and in the vanguard of peridynamics, non-local and higher-gradient continuum mechanics: An underestimated and still topical contribution of Gabrio Piola

    Francesco dell’Isola;Ugo Andreaus;Luca Placidi

  • Mechanical metamaterials: a state of the art:

    Emilio Barchiesi;Mario Spagnuolo;Luca Placidi

  • Pantographic metamaterials: an example of mathematically driven design and of its technological challenges

    Francesco dell’Isola;Pierre Seppecher;Pierre Seppecher;Jean Jacques Alibert;Tomasz Lekszycki;Tomasz Lekszycki;Tomasz Lekszycki

  • A unifying perspective: the relaxed linear micromorphic continuum

    Patrizio Neff;Ionel-Dumitrel Ghiba;Angela Madeo;Luca Placidi

  • Advances in pantographic structures: design, manufacturing, models, experiments and image analyses

    Francesco dell’Isola;Pierre Seppecher;Mario Spagnuolo;Mario Spagnuolo;Emilio Barchiesi;Emilio Barchiesi

  • A strain gradient variational approach to damage: a comparison with damage gradient models and numerical results

    Luca Placidi;Emilio Barchiesi;Anil Misra

  • Linear pantographic sheets: Asymptotic micro-macro models identification

    Claude Boutin;Francesco dell’Isola;Ivan Giorgio;Luca Placidi

  • Wave propagation in relaxed micromorphic continua: modeling metamaterials with frequency band-gaps

    Angela Madeo;Patrizio Neff;Ionel-Dumitrel Ghiba;Luca Placidi

  • Reflection and transmission of plane waves at surfaces carrying material properties and embedded in second-gradient materials

    Luca Placidi;Giuseppe Rosi;Ivan Giorgio;Angela Madeo

  • Identification of two-dimensional pantographic structure via a linear D4 orthotropic second gradient elastic model

    Luca Placidi;Ugo Andreaus;Ivan Giorgio

  • Wave propagation in relaxed micromorphic continua: modelling metamaterials with frequency band-gaps

    Angela Madeo;Patrizio Neff;Ionel-Dumitrel Ghiba;Luca Placidi

  • Linear plane wave propagation and normal transmission and reflection at discontinuity surfaces in second gradient 3D continua

    Francesco Dell'Isola;Angela Madeo;Luca Placidi

  • Gedanken experiments for the determination of two-dimensional linear second gradient elasticity coefficients

    Luca Placidi;Ugo Andreaus;Alessandro Della Corte;Tomasz Lekszycki

  • A variational approach for a nonlinear 1-dimensional second gradient continuum damage model

    Luca Placidi

  • Energy approach to brittle fracture in strain-gradient modelling

    Luca Placidi;Emilio Barchiesi

  • A variational approach for a nonlinear one-dimensional damage-elasto-plastic second-gradient continuum model

    Luca Placidi

  • A review on 2D models for the description of pantographic fabrics

    Luca Placidi;Emilio Barchiesi;Emilio Turco;Nicola Luigi Rizzi

  • Two-dimensional strain gradient damage modeling: a variational approach

    Luca Placidi;Anil Misra;Emilio Barchiesi

  • A mixture theory framework for modeling the mechanical actuation of ionic polymer metal composites

    Giovanni Del Bufalo;Luca Placidi;Maurizio Porfiri

  • Numerical simulations of classical problems in two-dimensional (non) linear second gradient elasticity

    Ugo Andreaus;Francesco dell’Isola;Ivan Giorgio;Luca Placidi

Frequent Co-Authors

Emilio Barchiesi
Emilio Barchiesi University of Sassari
Francesco dell’Isola
Francesco dell’Isola University of L'Aquila
Ugo Andreaus
Ugo Andreaus Sapienza University of Rome
Anil Misra
Anil Misra University of Kansas
Angela Madeo
Angela Madeo TU Dortmund University
Ivan Giorgio
Ivan Giorgio University of L'Aquila
Ralf Greve
Ralf Greve Hokkaido University
Patrizio Neff
Patrizio Neff University of Duisburg-Essen
Bernardino Chiaia
Bernardino Chiaia Polytechnic University of Turin
Emilio Turco
Emilio Turco University of Sassari

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