Paolo Vannucci is Professor of Mechanics at the LMV - Laboratoire de Mathématiques deVersailles, University of Versailles and Saint-Quentin. His main research activities concern planeanisotropic elasticity and multiphysics problems, optimization methods for anisotropic structures,metaheuristics for structural optimization, mechanics of no-tension materials applied to the study ofmonumental structures.

• Basic Concepts of Anisotropy.- General Anisotropic Elasticity.- Plane Anisotropic Elasticity.- The Polar Formalism.- Anisotropic Laminates.- Design problems and methods of anisotropic structures.

Paolo Vannucci is Professor of Mechanics at the LMV - Laboratoire de Mathématiques deVersailles, University of Versailles and Saint-Quentin. His main research activities concern planeanisotropic elasticity and multiphysics problems, optimization methods for anisotropic structures,metaheuristics for structural optimization, mechanics of no-tension materials applied to the study ofmonumental structures.

• Basic Concepts of Anisotropy.- General Anisotropic Elasticity.- Plane Anisotropic Elasticity.- The Polar Formalism.- Anisotropic Laminates.- Design problems and methods of anisotropic structures.

Paolo Vannucci is Professor of Mechanics at the LMV - Laboratoire de Mathématiques deVersailles, University of Versailles and Saint-Quentin. His main research activities concern planeanisotropic elasticity and multiphysics problems, optimization methods for anisotropic structures,metaheuristics for structural optimization, mechanics of no-tension materials applied to the study ofmonumental structures.

• Basic Concepts of Anisotropy.- General Anisotropic Elasticity.- Plane Anisotropic Elasticity.- The Polar Formalism.- Anisotropic Laminates.- Design problems and methods of anisotropic structures.