Research interests:

• Prediction of static properties of heterogeneous media for a periodic structure provided by the Asymptotic Homogenization Method.
• Prediction of dynamic properties of randomly distributed heterogeneous media.
• Variational methods for bounding effective properties of composites linear and nonlinear.
• Numerical Methods and Homogenization.
• Wave propagation in heterogeneous media.

Main recent publications

• Bravo-Castillero, J., Rodríguez-Ramos, R., M. Mechkour, Otero, J.A., Sabina, F. Homogenization of magneto-electro-elastic multilaminated materials. Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 61, No. 3, 311-332, 2008.
• H. Brito–Santana, R. Rodríguez–Ramos, R. Guinovart–Díaz, J. Bravo–Castillero, F. J. Sabina, G. A. Maugin. Unified formulae of variational bounds for multiphase anisotropic elastic composites. Archive of Applied Mechanics, 79: 189-204, 2009.
• Héctor Camacho-Montes, F.J. Sabina, Julián Bravo-Castillero, Raúl Guinovart-Díaz, Reinaldo Rodríguez-Ramos. Magnetoelectric coupling and cross-property connections in a square array of a binary composite. International Journal of Engineering Science 47, 294–312, 2009.
• R. Rodriguez-Ramos, R. Guinovart-Diaz, J. Bravo-Castillero, F. J. Sabina, H. Berger, S. Kari, U. Gabbert. Variational bounds for anisotropic elastic multiphase composites with different shapes of inclusions. Archive of Applied Mechanics, 2008. doi: 10.1007/s00419-008-0246-1, 2008.
• L.D. Pérez-Fernández, J. Bravo-Castillero, R. Rodríguez-Ramos, F.J. Sabina. On the constitutive relations and energy potentials of linear thermo-magneto-electro-elasticity. Mechanics Research Communications, Volume 36, Issue 3, 343-350, 2009.