1 Thermo-Electro-Mechanical Properties of Interpenetrating Phase Composites with Periodic Architectured Reinforcements -- 2 A Continuum Damage Model Based on Experiments and Numerical Simulations - A Review -- 3 The Multiplicative Decomposition of the Deformation Gradient in Plasticity - Origin and Limitations -- 4 Effect of Biaxial Work Hardening Modeling for Sheet Metals on the Accuracy of Forming Limit Analyses using the Marciniak-Kuczy nski Approach.