Sensitivity of the macroscopic response of elastic microstructures to the insertion of inclusions - Eduardo De Souza Neto (Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2010)
This paper was part of the outcome of a Royal Society funded International Joint Project (RS Grant no. JP080066) with the National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC) - one of the leading research institutes in Brazil. This work - of a more theoretical nature - derived a fundamental result that paved the way for further research on algorithms for optimisation of elastic microstructures and led to further international collaboration with the University of Avignon (France).