Tessellation-based computational methods for the characterization and analysis of heterogeneous microstructures

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 9-10, 1997, Pages 1187-1210

  Ghosh, Somnath ^a   Nowak, Zdzislaw ^a,b   Lee, Kyunghoon ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL TECHNOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Poland)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous materials; Quantitative characterization; Voronoi cell finite element method

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRUCTURE; STRESS ANALYSIS;

DIRICHLET TESSELLATION; HETEROGENEOUS MICROSTRUCTURES; VORONOI POLYGONS;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 0031223366     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0266-3538(97)00042-0     Document Type: Article

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