Scale effects in materials with random distributions of needles and cracks

Mechanics of Materials

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 883-893

  Ostoja Starzewski, Martin ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; CRACKS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; RANDOM PROCESSES; STATISTICAL MECHANICS; STIFFNESS;

DIRICHLET BOUNDARY CONDITION; NEUMANN BOUNDARY CONDITION; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENT (RVE);

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 0033340049     PISSN: 01676636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6636(99)00039-3     Document Type: Article

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