Multi-scale constitutive modelling of heterogeneous materials with a gradient-enhanced computational homogenization scheme

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 54, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1235-1260

  Kouznetsova, V ^a,b   Geers, M G D ^b   Brekelmans, W A M ^b  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR METALS RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Computational homogenization; Heterogeneous material; Higher order constitutive behaviour; Multi scale methods; Size effects

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; DEFORMATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

SIZE EFFECTS;

MICROSTRUCTURE;

MATHEMATICAL METHOD;

EID: 0037143110     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.541     Document Type: Article

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