A micromechanics-based nonlocal constitutive equation and minimum RVE size estimates for random elastic composites containing aligned spheroidal heterogeneities

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1578-1595

  Monetto, Ilaria ^a   Drugan, W J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

Aligned inclusions; Nonlocal constitutive equations; Random composites

Indexed keywords

ALIGNED INCLUSIONS; CLOSED FORM; ELASTIC COMPOSITES; ENSEMBLE AVERAGES; EXTREME CASE; INTERNAL LENGTH; MACROSCOPIC RESPONSE; MATRIX; NON-LOCAL EFFECT; NONLOCAL; NONLOCAL CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS; QUANTITATIVE ESTIMATES; RANDOM COMPOSITES; RANDOM DISTRIBUTION; RANDOM MATERIALS; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENTS; RIGID PARTICLES; SCALE TRANSFORMATION; SPHERICAL PARTICLE; SPHEROIDAL INCLUSION; SPHEROIDAL MICROSTRUCTURES; SPHEROIDAL VOIDS; STATISTICAL CHARACTERIZATION; STRESS AND STRAIN; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC; VOLUME ELEMENTS;

INCLUSIONS; MICROMECHANICS; MICROSTRUCTURE; SPHERES; VOLUME MEASUREMENT;

CONSTITUTIVE EQUATIONS;

EID: 68049112450     PISSN: 00225096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2009.05.005     Document Type: Article

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