Rigorous bounds on the effective moduli of composites and inhomogeneous bodies with negative-stiffness phases

DOI10.1016/J.JMPS.2014.06.010zbMATH Open1328.74075arXiv1401.4142OpenAlexW2077613175WikidataQ107453480 ScholiaQ107453480MaRDI QIDQ904792FDOQ904792

Graeme W. Milton, Dennis M. Kochmann

Publication date: 14 January 2016

Published in: Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We review the theoretical bounds on the effective properties of linear elastic inhomogeneous solids (including composite materials) in the presence of constituents having non-positive-definite elastic moduli (so-called negative-stiffness phases). We show that for statically stable bodies the classical displacement-based variational principles for Dirichlet and Neumann boundary problems hold but that the dual variational principle for traction boundary problems does not apply. We illustrate our findings by the example of a coated spherical inclusion whose stability conditions are obtained from the variational principles. We further show that the classical Voigt upper bound on the linear elastic moduli in multi-phase inhomogeneous bodies and composites applies and that it imposes a stability condition: overall stability requires that the effective moduli do not surpass the Voigt upper bound. This particularly implies that, while the geometric constraints among constituents in a composite can stabilize negative-stiffness phases, the stabilization is insufficient to allow for extreme overall static elastic moduli (exceeding those of the constituents). Stronger bounds on the effective elastic moduli of isotropic composites can be obtained from the Hashin-Shtrikman variational inequalities, which are also shown to hold in the presence of negative stiffness.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1401.4142

zbMATH Keywords

stabilityelasticitycompositeeffective propertiesnegative stiffness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Stability in context of PDEs (35B35) PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Variational methods for problems in mechanics (70G75) Classical linear elasticity (74B05) Composite and mixture properties (74E30) Bounds on effective properties in solid mechanics (74Q20)

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