Claudia Comi

Claudia Comi is full Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Politecnico di Milano, Italy and member of the Council of PhD school in Structural, Earthquake and Geotechnical Engineering. Chair of the European Solid Mechanics Conference Committee, Associate Editor of Meccanica, Applied Sciences and Frontiers. (Co)author of about 200 scientific publications in various fields of solid and structural mechanics and 6 patents on microsystems. Her main research interests concern theoretical and computational mechanics of materials and structures. Her research activities focus on damage and quasi-brittle fracture modelling, on instability and bifurcation phenomena and nonlocal models for elastoplastic and damaging one-phase and multi-phase materials, including functionally graded materials. Her more recent research is devoted to modelling of auxetic and locally resonant metamaterials, also with applications to MEMS, and to design and reliability of microsystems.

Comi’s main research interests concern theoretical and computational mechanics of materials and structures. Her research activities focus on non-linear constitutive models, including plasticity and damage, for a broad class of traditional and innovative materials including functionally graded materials and metamaterials. Her research main achievements concerns: • the development of constitutive models for quasi-brittle materials with structural applications; • the description of strain localization and instability phenomena through non-local damage and non-local elasto-plastic formulations in one-phase and multi-phase materials; • the study of reliability and the design of Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS); • The design and modelling, also with asymptotic homogenization techniques, of auxetic and locally resonant metamaterials and of materials with negative thermal expansion; • The modeling of polymeric yarns and cords.