Statistical homogenization of particulate composites within strain gradient elasticity

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This work extends the method of conditional moments originally developed for classical elastic composites to materials governed by strain-gradient elasticity. Unlike in classical elasticity, the effective properties in strain-gradient elasticity depend on the characteristic size of the inclusions, enabling size-dependent behavior. The authors derive the effective elastic constants for a composite containing spherical inhomogeneities embedded in an isotropic matrix using one-point (volume fraction) and two-point (autocorrelation) correlation functions. Within classical elasticity, such an approximation is limited to the second-order concentration term. The dependence of the effective bulk and shear moduli on the inclusion volume fraction and the inhomogeneity size is evaluated numerically and compared with Mori-Tanaka prediction, which is limited to the first-order concentration term for classical elasticity.



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