Variational asymptotic micromechanics modeling of heterogeneous piezoelectric materials

Mechanics of Materials

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 812-824

  Tang, Tian ^a   Yu, Wenbin ^a  

^a Utah State University   (United States)

Author keywords

Mircomechanics; Piezoelectric heterogeneous materials; VAMUCH; Variational asymptotic method

Indexed keywords

ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; ELECTROACUPUNCTURE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; LITHOGRAPHY; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MEMS; MICROMECHANICS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PIEZOELECTRIC DEVICES; PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS; PIEZOELECTRICITY; PIGMENTS; TECHNOLOGY; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

(E ,2E) THEORY; COMPUTER PROGRAMS; CONSTRAINED MINIMIZATION PROBLEM; EFFECTIVE PROPERTIES; ELSEVIER (CO); ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT (FE); LOCAL FIELDS; MICROMECHANICS MODELLING; NEW MODEL; UNIT CELLS; VARIATIONAL ASYMPTOTIC METHOD (VAM);

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 45849100131     PISSN: 01676636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmat.2008.04.007     Document Type: Article

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