Objectives Excitations affecting metamaterials and metastructures, like ambient noise, earthquakes, wind, and ocean waves, are inherently stochastic. This course introduces stochastic processes and random vibrations for modeling and evaluating their stocastic dynamic response. Special attention is given to applications in ambient noise and earthquake engineering. The course deepens understanding of …
Objectives The course aims to provide a fundamental understanding of materials’ structure, diffusion processes and phase diagrams. The course will provide an insight into the chemical and physical properties of the main classes of materials (metals, polymers, ceramics) and the relationships between microstructure and properties (in particular mechanical). The course …
Objectives The course provides the basic knowledge related to the analysis of electromagnetic waves, up to the application layer. The course, through based on rigorous theoretical foundations, is oriented towards the applications of greatest interest to the electrical and telecommunication engineers. Theoretical classes will be complemented by numerical (carried out …
Objectives This class provides a comprehensive exploration of the mechanical and acoustic behavior of materials, focusing on cutting-edge concepts and applications. Through a combination of theoretical principles and practical examples, students will gain an in-depth understanding of the mechanics and acoustic behavior of hyperelastic materials, inelastic behavior, failure criteria, vibrations, …
Objectives The course provides an in-depth physical understanding and an ability to implement the wave approaches for modelling vibration in waveguides. The course concerns the physics and modelling of wave propagation in structures and solids. The formulation of theories for wave propagation in one-dimensional structures, including bars and beams is …
Objectives Metamaterials are materials exhibiting unconventional physical/mechanical properties that cannot be readily found in nature. They have a foundation in electromagnetics, but at the same time they have found wide applications in several engineering acoustics/electrodynamics/mechanics disciplines. The analysis and the synthesis of such materials, often physically realized as macro-scale aggregations …
Objectives The use of advanced numerical modeling and simulation techniques is nowadays essential to characterized the behavior and response of complex material and structures. However, classical computing architectures are useless when there is the need of obtaining accurate results in a reasonable computational time in case of multi-functional/multi-physics analysis. This …
Objectives The main target of the course is to provide a solid foundation for the computational modeling of mechanical metamaterials. After the course, the student will be able to identify the main numerical challenges associated with mechanical metamaterials and to perform numerical simulations of mechanical metamaterials. These objectives are achieved …
Objectives The laboratory aims at providing the knowledge and programming skills for the definition, implementation, and execution on HPC architectures of simulation SW. Beyond introductory examples, specific cases related to the analysis of complex multi-functional/multi-physics metamaterials and metastructures will be addressed also taking advantage of the HPC facilities hosted at …
Objectives In a Smart Electromagnetic Environment (SEME), the environment is no more an obstacle to wireless signals, but instead enables controlling and tailoring the propagation of electromagnetic waves thanks to the use of smart devices. In this framework, the laboratory aims at providing the methodological and technical skills and knowledge …