F. Dal Corso

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that second-order homogenization of a Cauchy-elastic dilute suspension of randomly distributed inclusions yields an equivalent second gradient (Mindlin) elastic material.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the configurational force can be derived both via variational calculus and, independently, through an asymptotic approach from a model structure that has been designed, realized and tested.

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the second-gradient Mindlin elastic solid is positive definite only when the discrepancy tensor is negative defined, and that the non-local material symmetries are the same of the mismatch tensor and the nonlocal effective behavior is affected by the shape of the RVE.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show how to produce elastic materials containing thin inclusions and provide photo-elastic investigation of these structures, until a distance from the inclusion tip on the order of its thickness, corresponding to a stress concentration up to seven.

TL;DR: In this article, photoelasticity is employed to investigate the stress state near stiff rectangular and rhombohedral inclusions embedded in a soft elastic plate, and the singular stress field predicted by the linear elastic solution for the rigid inclusion model can be generated in reality, with great accuracy, within a material.