General imperfect interface model for spherical-circular inclusion composites (Q6544689)

The authors investigate three-phase imperfectly-bonded inclusions in a 2D and 3D composite materials. In the 2D case, an inclusion is modeled as a disk with two concentric coatings. The conductivity of the coatings is represented by an anisotropic tensor, characterized by radial conductivity \(c_N\) and transverse one \(c_T\) in the polar coordinates. The local fields are explicitly constructed as a linear combination of rational functions of the form \(\frac{x_i x_j}{r^d}\) (\(d=2, 4\)) with \(x_i\) denoting the Cartesian coordinates and \(r\) the polar coordinate. The effective conductivity is obtained from the minimum energy principle. The authors restrict the consideration of the effective conductivity of some periodic and random composites to a three-point correlation approximation.