Non-local effects by homogenization or 3D-1D dimension reduction in elastic materials reinforced by stiff fibers (Q897790)

In the paper under review, the authors consider an elastic thin heterogeneous cylinder of radius \(\epsilon\). The interior of the cylinder is composed by a stiff material (the fiber), the exterior by a soft material (the matrix). The authors assume that the elasticity tensor of the fiber does not scale with \(\epsilon\) and that the one of the matrix scales with \(\epsilon^2\). They study the asymptotic behavior as \(\epsilon \to 0\), and they prove that the limit problem can be written as two independent systems: a local system posed on the matrix and a nonlocal one posed on the fiber. Then they turn to study an homogenization problem, where a reference configuration is filled by a periodic array of rods as those considered before, and they show that a nonlocality appears also in the homogenized problem.