Purely mechanical constitutive theory for fluid-filled porous materials with broken outer boundaries (Q579017)

The purely mechanical constitutive theory for a fluid-filled porous material is re-examined from a point of view that the outer boundary of an actual representative volume element consists of solid and fluid. Volume average kinematical and kinetical quantities for porous materials with broken outer boundaries are introduced. If a pointwise stress distribution on the inner boundary of the porous solid material is replaced by a constant hydrostatic fluid pressure, the form of constitutive equations for the broken outer boundary case is shown to be the same as that for the closed outer boundary case.