Multiscale analysis of materials with anisotropic microstructure as micropolar continua
Multiscale procedures are often adopted for the continuum modeling of materials composed of a specific micro-structure. Generally, in mechanics of materials only two-scales are linked. In this work the original (fine) micro-scale description, thought as a composite material made of matrix and fibers/particles/crystals which can interact among them, and a scale-dependent continuum (coarse) macro-scale are linked via an energy equivalence criterion.