Mini-Symposium MS11 “Materials and Structures Across Scales: Modeling, Simulation and Uncertainty Quantification”
Organizzatori: Raffaele Barretta (University of Naples Federico II), Massimiliano Gioffrè (University of Perugia), Michele Marino (Tor Vergata University of Rome), Marco Pingaro (Sapienza University of Rome)
XXVII Convegno AIMETA
7-10 Settembre 2026 (Brescia)
Gruppi AIMETA proponenti: GAMeN, GIMC, GMA, GAMS (Mini-simposio congiunto)
https://brescia2026.aimeta.it/
The mini-symposium aims to bring together theoretical, computational, and applied contributions devoted to the development and application of multiscale approaches and methods for the advanced modeling of materials and structures, including in the presence of
uncertainties. The focus is on the modeling and analysis of problems across different scales of observation and on the associated coupling procedures, from the micro- and nanostructural levels up to the macroscopic response, with particular reference to analytical, computational, and probabilistic homogenization techniques, micro–macro strategies (including FE² and hierarchical methods), reduced-order models, and discrete–continuum coupling approaches.
The mini-symposium welcomes contributions on multiscale localization phenomena, instabilities, damage, and fracture, as well as on scale effects and unconventional behaviors of advanced materials and structures, including nanomaterials, nanocomposites, metamaterials, and nanostructures. Particular attention is also devoted to uncertainty quantification and its integration within multiscale modeling frameworks. Special emphasis is placed on multiphysics modeling, characterization, and design of functional materials and innovative systems, also in the presence of complex couplings among mechanical, physical, structural, and probabilistic phenomena.
