A critical evaluation of micromechanical models for syntactic foams

Mechanics of Materials

Volumn 50, Issue , 2012, Pages 53-69

  Bardella, Lorenzo ^a   Sfreddo, Alessandro ^a,b   Ventura, Carlo ^a,b   Porfiri, Maurizio ^b   Gupta, Nikhil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Effective elastic properties; Finite element method; Morphologically Representative Pattern; Numerical Homogenisation; Self Consistent scheme; Syntactic foam

Indexed keywords

EFFECTIVE ELASTIC PROPERTY; HOMOGENISATION; MORPHOLOGICALLY REPRESENTATIVE PATTERN; SELF-CONSISTENT SCHEME; SYNTACTIC FOAMS;

ELASTICITY; ESTIMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SYNTACTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SPHERES;

EID: 84859492983     PISSN: 01676636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mechmat.2012.02.008     Document Type: Article

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