Some reflections on the Mori-Tanaka and Ponte Castaneda-Willis methods with randomly oriented ellipsoidal inclusions

Acta Mechanica

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 31-40

  Hu, G K ^a   Weng, G J ^b  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; MICROSTRUCTURE; NUMERICAL METHODS; PLASTICITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

MORI-TANAKA METHOD; PONTE CASTANEDA-WILLIS METHOD; RANDOMLY ORIENTED INCLUSIONS; TWO POINT JOINT PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 0033683794     PISSN: 00015970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01175978     Document Type: Article

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