We construct a simple model of an elastic material whose stiffness can be effectively controlled by an appropriately chosen set of microstructural parameters. The model is based on ideas of the scale-dependent continuum description and might play an important role in modelling of muscle tissues...

The elastic properties of granular materials can be enormously nonlinear as compared with the properties of non-porous materials. Experiments on isotropic compression of a granular assembly of spheres show that the shear μ, and bulk k, moduli vary with the confining pressure faster than the 1/3...

This study is devoted to the numerical solution of 3D elasticity problems in multilayer media. The problem is described by a coupled system of second-order nonlinear elliptic partial differential equations with strongly varying coefficients. The boundary value problem is discretized by trilinear...