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Main Authors: Sarhil, Mohammad, Ramirez, Leonardo Andres Perez, Voss, Max Jendrik, Madeo, Angela
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Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19604
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author Sarhil, Mohammad
Ramirez, Leonardo Andres Perez
Voss, Max Jendrik
Madeo, Angela
author_facet Sarhil, Mohammad
Ramirez, Leonardo Andres Perez
Voss, Max Jendrik
Madeo, Angela
contents Mechanical metamaterials exhibit size-effects when a few unit-cells are subjected to static loading because no clear micro-macro scale separation holds and the characteristic length of the deformation becomes comparable to the unit-cell size. These size-effects typically manifest themselves as a strengthening of the response in a form summarized as "smaller is stiffer". Moreover, the dynamical behavior of mechanical metamaterials is very remarkable, featuring unique phenomena such as dispersive behavior and band-gaps where elastic waves cannot propagate over specific frequency ranges. In these frequency ranges, the wavelength becomes gradually comparable to the unit-cell size, giving rise to microstructure related phenomena which become particularly visible in the reflection/transmission patterns where an incident wave hits the metamaterial's interfaces. This raises the question of whether the static size-effects and dynamic reflection/transmission patterns are correlated. In this work, we investigate the interaction of the static size-effects and the dynamic scattering response of mechanical metamaterials by employing the relaxed micromorphic model. We introduce a two-stage optimization procedure to identify the material parameters. In the first stage, the static material parameters are identified by exploiting the static size-effects through a least squares fitting procedure based on the total energy. The dynamic parameters are determined in the second stage by fitting the dispersion curves of the relaxed micromorphic model to those of the fully discretized microstructure. At this second stage, we assess the results obtained by fitting the dispersion curves in one and in two propagation directions, for both the relaxed micromorphic model (RMM) with curvature and its reduced counterpart (RRMM) without curvature. The full abstract is presented in the paper.
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spellingShingle Static size-effects meet the dynamic scattering properties of finite-sized mechanical metamaterials: a relaxed micromorphic study with parameter identification via two-stage static-dynamic optimization
Sarhil, Mohammad
Ramirez, Leonardo Andres Perez
Voss, Max Jendrik
Madeo, Angela
Numerical Analysis
Mechanical metamaterials exhibit size-effects when a few unit-cells are subjected to static loading because no clear micro-macro scale separation holds and the characteristic length of the deformation becomes comparable to the unit-cell size. These size-effects typically manifest themselves as a strengthening of the response in a form summarized as "smaller is stiffer". Moreover, the dynamical behavior of mechanical metamaterials is very remarkable, featuring unique phenomena such as dispersive behavior and band-gaps where elastic waves cannot propagate over specific frequency ranges. In these frequency ranges, the wavelength becomes gradually comparable to the unit-cell size, giving rise to microstructure related phenomena which become particularly visible in the reflection/transmission patterns where an incident wave hits the metamaterial's interfaces. This raises the question of whether the static size-effects and dynamic reflection/transmission patterns are correlated. In this work, we investigate the interaction of the static size-effects and the dynamic scattering response of mechanical metamaterials by employing the relaxed micromorphic model. We introduce a two-stage optimization procedure to identify the material parameters. In the first stage, the static material parameters are identified by exploiting the static size-effects through a least squares fitting procedure based on the total energy. The dynamic parameters are determined in the second stage by fitting the dispersion curves of the relaxed micromorphic model to those of the fully discretized microstructure. At this second stage, we assess the results obtained by fitting the dispersion curves in one and in two propagation directions, for both the relaxed micromorphic model (RMM) with curvature and its reduced counterpart (RRMM) without curvature. The full abstract is presented in the paper.
title Static size-effects meet the dynamic scattering properties of finite-sized mechanical metamaterials: a relaxed micromorphic study with parameter identification via two-stage static-dynamic optimization
topic Numerical Analysis
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.19604