Figure 1.
Deformation of micromorphic beams: Schematics of a beam with a deformed microstructure. The beam is a composition of elongated-particles that represent the beam granular microstructure. Two independent elastic domains are defined such that Ω(x, y, z) is the macroscopic domain, and Ωm(x′, y′, z′) is the microscopic domain of an elongated particle. Elongated particles are modeled as micro-beams exhibiting macroscopic displacements, and , and micro-displacements, and . The micro-beam (i.e., elongated-particle) deforms such that its cross section rotates with an angle, .