Bounds for the effective constitutive relation of a nonlinear composite

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

Volumn 460, Issue 2049, 2004, Pages 2705-2723

  Talbot, D R S ^a   Willis, J R ^b  

^a Faculty of Engineering and Computing   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bounds; Effective constitutive relation; Minimum principle; Nonlinear composite

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DENSITY; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

EID: 13844258691     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2004.1309     Document Type: Article

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