Development of 3D trefftz voronoi cells with ellipsoidal voids &/or elastic/rigid inclusions for micromechanical modeling of heterogeneous materials

Computers, Materials and Continua

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 39-81

  Dong, Leiting ^a   Atluri, Satya N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barycentric coordinates; Collocation; Completeness; Efficiency; Ellipsoidal harmonics; Inclusion; LBB conditions; Matrix; Papkovich Neuber solution; Trefftz Voronoi Cell; Variational principle; Void

Indexed keywords

BARYCENTRIC COORDINATES; COLLOCATION; COMPLETENESS; ELLIPSOIDAL HARMONICS; LBB CONDITION; PAPKOVICH-NEUBER SOLUTION; VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES; VOID; VORONOI CELL;

CELLS; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; CYTOLOGY; EFFICIENCY; INCLUSIONS; LAGRANGE MULTIPLIERS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRESS CONCENTRATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84872302435     PISSN: 15462218     EISSN: 15462226     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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