Composite materials consist of two or more different materials that form regions large
enough to be regarded as continua and which are usually firmly bonded together at the …

Publisher Summary This chapter elaborates some closely related methods developed to
estimate the effective behavior of nonlinear composites with random microstructures. The …

The representative volume element (RVE) plays a central role in the mechanics and physics
of random heterogeneous materials with a view to predicting their effective properties. A …

In this paper, we present a comprehensive analytical and experimental investigation for the
determination of the effective thermal conductivity (ke), permeability (K) and inertial …

Three-dimensional cubic unit cells containing 30 non-overlap** identical spheres
randomly distributed were generated using a new, modified random sequential adsortion …

Negative stiffness mechanical metamaterials have shown great promise for various
applications and are progressing toward programmability. The key challenge in designing …

The goal of" Porous Media: Geometry and Transports" is to provide the basis of a rational
and modern approach to porous media. This book emphasizes several geometrical …

Elastic property-porosity relationships are derived directly from microtomographic images.
This is illustrated for a suite of four samples of Fontainebleau sandstone with porosities …

Motivated by previous small-contrast perturbation estimates, this paper proposes a new
method for estimating the effective behavior of nonlinear composite materials with arbitrary …

▪ Abstract We review progress made in quantitatively ascertaining the various statistical
correlation functions that are fundamental to determining the material properties of specific …