Effects of grain sizes, shapes, and distribution on minimum sizes of representative volume elements of cubic polycrystals

Mechanics of Materials

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1217-1229

  Ren, Z Y ^a   Zheng, Q S ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPACITORS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; CONTINUUM MECHANICS; CORRELATION METHODS; ELASTIC MODULI; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; MICROELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; MICROSTRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; VOLUME FRACTION;

CRYSTAL ANISOTROPY; RELATIVE ERRORS; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENT (RVE);

POLYCRYSTALS;

EID: 4344668721     PISSN: 01676636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmat.2003.11.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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