Size-effects of metamaterial beams subjected to pure bending: on boundary conditions and parameter identification in the relaxed micromorphic model

Abstract

In this paper we model the size-effects of metamaterial beams under bending with the aid of the relaxed micromorphic continuum. We analyze first the size-dependent bending stiffness of heterogeneous fully discretized metamaterial beams subjected to pure bending loads. Two equivalent loading schemes are introduced which lead to a constant moment along the beam length with no shear force. The relaxed micromorphic model is employed then to retrieve the size-effects. We present a procedure for the determination of the material parameters of the relaxed micromorphic model based on the fact that the model operates between two well-defined scales. These scales are given by linear elasticity with micro and macro elasticity tensors which bound the relaxed micromorphic continuum from above and below, respectively. The micro elasticity tensor is specified as the maximum possible stiffness that is exhibited by the assumed metamaterial while the macro elasticity tensor is given by standard periodic first-order homogenization. For the identification of the micro elasticity tensor, two different approaches are shown which rely on affine and non-affine Dirichlet boundary conditions of candidate unit cell variants with the possible stiffest response. The consistent coupling condition is shown to allow the model to act on the whole intended range between macro and micro elasticity tensors for both loading cases. We fit the relaxed micromorphic model against the fully resolved metamaterial solution by controlling the curvature magnitude after linking it with the specimen's size. The obtained parameters of the relaxed micromorphic model are tested for two additional loading scenarios.

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