Boundary-Aware Implementation of Relaxed Micromorphic Media to Account for Boundary Effects in Finite-Size Metamaterials

On Wednesday, November 4, 2026, at 14:00, the doctoral thesis defense of Leonardo Andrés Pérez Ramírez will take place in Pavillon 8, Room R0.21.
The dissertation investigates how boundary effects in finite-size mechanical metamaterials can be incorporated into the relaxed micromorphic framework. In particular, it develops a boundary-aware formulation that separates the behavior of the periodic bulk material from effects introduced by different boundary truncations. An effective interface inertia, derived from a surface Lagrangian, is introduced to account for these boundary effects without resolving the complete microstructure.