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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0707.00028.] This paper deals with the application of the \(H\)-measures to problems of small amplitude homogenization. It exactly describes the results of a detailed publication of the author in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh concerning \(H\)-measures [\textit{L. Tartar}, Proc. R. Soc. Edinb., Sect. A 115, No. 3/4, 193-230 (1990; Zbl 0774.35008)] and the particular example of small amplitude homogenization for a diffusion equation. It proves that the formula which is used in theoretical physics for the effective conductivity of a mixture of isotropic diffusive materials with conductivity \(a(x)\), in the case where the oscillations of \(a(x)\) are small, is indeed a good guess. The paper gives the extension of that result to the isotropic case in linear elasticity. The new idea is that there is a precise mathematical tool which proves the formula for the effective coefficients in small amplitude homogenization problems without having to make any symmetry or periodicity assumptions for the composition.