On the third-order bounds of the effective shear modulus of two-phase composites

Mechanics of Materials

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 269-275

  Frank Xu, X ^a  

^a STEVENS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Composites; Effective moduli; Shear modulus; Variational bounds

Indexed keywords

BULK MODULUS; BULK PARAMETERS; COMPOSITES; EFFECTIVE MODULI; EFFECTIVE SHEAR MODULUS; FIRST-ORDER; INHOMOGENEOUS MEDIA; LOWER BOUNDS; MULTIPHASE MEDIA; NONLINEAR COMPOSITE; PLASTICITY THEORY; RANDOM COMPOSITES; SECOND-ORDER BOUNDS; SHEAR MODULUS; SHEAR PARAMETERS; SIMPLE RULES; STOCHASTIC VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLE; THIRD-ORDER; TRIAL FUNCTIONS; TWO PHASE COMPOSITES; UPPER BOUND; VARIATIONAL BOUNDS; VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES;

SHEAR STRAIN; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

ELASTIC MODULI;

EID: 79952722190     PISSN: 01676636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmat.2011.02.009     Document Type: Article

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