Effective properties of nonlinear composites

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We describe several procedures commonly used or recently developed to predict the overall behavior of nonlinear composites from the behavior of their individual constituents and from statistical information about their microstructure. First, we discuss the secant methods. A modified method based on the second-order moment of the strain field is proposed and compared with the classical secant methods in specific situations, for composites with large or small contrast and made of power-law materials. Then we present the incremental method and a variational procedure leading to rigorous upper bounds on the effective potential of the composite. Finally, we predict the overall behavior of metal-matrix composites and propose a simplified model based on the variational procedure. Its predictions compare well with simulations performed by the finite element methods. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0864.00042].




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