%0 Book Section %A Bacigalupo, Andrea %A Gambarotta, Luigi %B Proceedings of ECCM15, 15th European Conference on Composite Materials %D 2012 %F eprints:2526 %I University of Padova %K layered materials, damage, strain localization, second order homogenization %P 1-8 %T Second grade modeling for the strain localization analysis of layered materials with damaging interfaces %U http://eprints.imtlucca.it/2526/ %X A second-order computational homogenization procedure for heterogeneous materials with periodic microstructure is applied to the analysis of a layered strip with damaging interface subjected to simple shear. The second gradient model is applied in a strain localization analysis and localization limiters depending on the geometry and mechanical parameters of the layered material are obtained. %Z ECCM15, 15th European Conference on Composite Materials, Venice, Italy, 24–28 June 2012