Towards a complete characterization of the effective elasticity tensors of mixtures of an elastic phase and an almost rigid phase

DOI10.2140/MEMOCS.2017.5.95MaRDI QIDQ2012512zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Davit Harutyunyan, Marc Briane, Graeme W. Milton

Publication date 1 August 2017

Published in Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.03722

zbMATH Keywords

compositeselasticity \(G\)-closuremetamaterials

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Bounds on effective properties in solid mechanics (74Q20)

Abstract: The set $G{U}_f$ of possible effective elastic tensors of composites built from two materials with positive definite elasticity tensors $B{C}_1$ and $B{C}_2=GdB{C}_0$ comprising the set $U=B{C}_1,GdB{C}_0$ and mixed in proportions $f$ and $1-f$ is partly characterized in the limit $Gdoinfty$. The material with tensor $B{C}_2$ corresponds to a material which (for technical reasons) is almost rigid in the limit $Gdoinfty$. The paper, and the underlying microgeometries, have many aspects in common with the companion paper "On the possible effective elasticity tensors of 2-dimensional printed materials". The chief difference is that one has a different algebraic problem to solve: determining the subspaces of stress fields for which the thin walled structures can be rigid, rather than determining, as in the companion paper, the subspaces of strain fields for which the thin walled structure is compliant. Recalling that $G{U}_f$ is completely characterized through minimums of sums of energies, involving a set of applied strains, and complementary energies, involving a set of applied stresses, we provide descriptions of microgeometries that in appropriate limits achieve the minimums in many cases. In these cases the calculation of the minimum is reduced to a finite dimensional minimization problem that can be done numerically. Each microgeometry consists of a union of walls in appropriate directions, where the material in the wall is an appropriate $p$-mode material, that is almost rigid to $6-pleq5$ independent applied stresses, yet is compliant to any strain in the orthogonal space. Thus the walls, by themselves, can support stress with almost no deformation. The region outside the walls contains "Avellaneda material" that is a hierarchical laminate which minimizes an appropriate sum of elastic energies.

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