The size effect in foams and its theoretical and numerical investigation

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 458, Issue 2028, 2002, Pages 2869-2883

  Diebels, Stefan ^a   Steeb, Holger ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cosserat theory; Lattice models; Polymeric foams; Size effect

Indexed keywords

BENDING TESTS; BOUNDARY LAYER FLOW; BOUNDARY LAYERS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; LATTICE THEORY; MICROSTRUCTURE; TENSILE TESTING;

BOUNDARY LAYER EFFECTS; COMPRESSION AND TENSION; COSSERAT THEORY; INTERNAL LENGTH SCALE; LATTICE MODELS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; POLYMERIC FOAMS; SIZE EFFECTS;

SIZE DETERMINATION;

EID: 0142145799     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2002.0991     Document Type: Article

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