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
• Fabrication and testing of non-classical continua
• Topology optimization of Metamaterials
• Computational and numerical aspects

• Martin Wegener, (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
• Valery P. Smyshlyaev (University College London, UK)
• Muthusamy Vanninathan (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India)
• François Jouve (Université Paris-Diderot, France)

The workshop will have a very limited number of participants (40). Please submit an abstract as soon as possible.

• Abstract: 15^th of March 2022 25^th of March 2022 (firm deadline). Here is the template
• Notification of acceptance and preliminary program: 21^st of March 2022
  
• Registration
  • openning: 21^st of March 2022
    
  • closure: 20^th of April 2022

• IRP Coss&Vita (CNRS)
  
• ArchiMatHOS (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, grant ANR-17-CE08-0039)