Effective moduli of particulate solids: The completed double layer boundary element method with lubrication approximation

This paper reports the numerical results of the effective moduli of a composite consisting of identical rigid spherical inclusions in a homogeneous isotropic elastic medium. The effective moduli are calculated for particles in simple, body-centered, face-centered cubic lattices, and in a random configuration. The numerical technique used is the Completed Double Layer Boundary Element Method (CDLBEM) augmented by a short-range lubrication approximation. The results agree well with previous numerical results obtained by a completely different technique. Agreement with experimental results for particles in random configurations is also observed.     

Continuity for the asymptotic shape in the frog model with random initial configurations

We consider the so-called frog model with random initial configurations, which is described by the following evolution mechanism of simple random walks on the multidimensional cubic lattice: Some particles are randomly assigned to any site of the multidimensional cubic lattice. Initially, only particles at the origin are active and they independently perform simple random walks. The other particles are sleeping and do not move at first. When sleeping particles are hit by an active particle, they become active and start doing independent simple random walks. An interest of this model is how initial configurations affect the asymptotic shape of the set of all sites visited by active particles up to a certain time. Thus, in this paper, we prove continuity for the asymptotic shape in the law of the initial configuration.     

Effect of anisometry of a platelike nanofiller on the elastic constants of a transversely isotropic composite

Analysis results for the elastic properties of a composite with a small amount of coplanarly arranged platelike filler particles are presented. The geometrical form of the particles is described by an oblate ellipsoid of revolution. The calculations are performed by formulas obtained by using the Eshelby approach for media with a low concentration of inclusions. The effect of anisometry of the ellipsoidal particles and of the ratio between the elastic moduli of the filler and matrix on the effective elastic constants of the composite is discussed. Calculation results are compared with experimental data for the elastic moduli of a nanocomposite containing completely exfoliated particles of an unmodified montmorillonite. __________ Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 44, No. 4, pp. 493–504, July–August, 2008.     

球形涂层粒子增强复合材料的有效模量

本文通过四相球模型和复合材料的等效介质理论,研究了球形涂层粒子增强复合材料的有效模量性质,得到了这种增强复合材料的有效体积模量和有效剪切模量的理论预测公式。这些结果在特殊情况下,可退化到三相球模型确定的球形粒子增强复合材料的有效模量公式。     

Numerical calculation of effective elastic moduli for incompressible porous material

Incompressible elastic material with a periodic system of pores is considered. Processes are studied with a typical length which is much more than the typical diameter of pores and the typical distance between pores. Porous material behaves as a certain “effective” material without pores in such processes. The method of calculation of effective moduli based on mathematical homogenization theory is described. The estimates for the effective moduli are proved. The results of numerical calculations of effective moduli for materials with spherical and cubic pores are presented. The dependence of the effective moduli on the volume fracture of pores is investigated. The explicit formulae for effective coefficients are deduced. Comparison with the effective moduli for compressible materials is performed. Presented at the Ninth International Conference on the Mechanics of Composite Materials, Riga, October, 1995. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Mathematics and Mechanics, Moscow. Published in Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, No. 5, pp. 579–587, September–October, 1996.     

Modeling viscoelastic response of particulate polymeric composites with high volume fractions of fillers

A generalized self-consistent method is extended to particulate viscoelastic composites with elastomeric matrices and high volume fractions of elastic inclusions. It is shown that the effective bulk modulus of a composite coincides with the bulk modulus of particles. A quadratic operator equation is derived for an analog of the effective shear relaxation kernel. This equation is explicitly solved using the Laplace transform method. The influence of material and geometrical parameters of a composite on its effective viscoelastic moduli is analyzed numerically.     

Homogenization of Unidirectional and Arbitrarily Oriented Fiber-Reinforced Materials by the Method of Conditional Moments

In this paper the method of conditional moments is developed for the case of a two–component matrix composite with randomly distributed unidirectional and arbitrarily oriented ellipsoidal inclusions. The algorithm for determination of the effective elastic properties of composites from the given elastic constants of the components and geometrical parameters and orientation of inclusions is discussed. It is assumed that the components of the composite show orthotropic symmetry of thermoelastic properties. As a numerical example arbolite (straw particle inclusions in a cement matrix) is considered. The dependencies of Young's moduli, Poisson's ratios and shear moduli from the concentration of inclusions and for certain orientations of the inclusions are predicted and discussed. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Elasticity of composites with irregularly oriented shape-anisotropic filler particles

A variant of determining the elastic characteristics of composites containing irregularly oriented shape-anisotropic filler particles of two types (short fibers and thin platelets) is considered. The effective elastic constants of the composites are calculated by using the method of orientational averaging of elastic characteristics of isolated transversely isotropic structural elements reinforced with unidirectionally oriented short fibers or coplanarly arranged thin platelets. The superposition of elastic properties of the irregularly oriented structural elements, with account of their orientational distribution in the composite material, is accepted. The calculation results are compared with experimental data for the effective elastic moduli of polymeric composites reinforced with short glass fibers and of polymeric nanocomposites containing the platelet-type particles of organically modified montmorillonite. __________ Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 42, No. 3, pp. 285–300, May–June, 2006.     

Effective elastic moduli and stress concentrator factors in random structure aligned fiber composites

We consider a linearly elastic composite medium, which consists of a homogeneous matrix containing a statistically uniform random set of aligned fibers. Effective elastic moduli as well as the stress concentrator factors in the components are estimated. The micromechanical approach is based on the Green’s function technique as well as on the generalization of the “multiparticle effective field method” (MEFM, see for references, Buryachenko [1]). The refined version of the MEFM takes into account the variation of the effective fields acting on each pair of fibers. The dependence of effective elastic moduli and stress concentrator factors on the radial distribution function of the fiber locations is analyzed. Received: October 20, 2004     

复合材料大层数层压矩形截面杆的扭转问题分析

本文根据有效弹性模量理论［１］，采用三维八节点等参数有限元和整体—局部方法，对复合材料大层数矩形厚截面层压杆的扭转问题及其自由边缘效应进行了分析研究，通过算例计算给出了剪切应力在横截面内的分布规律、杆的扭转变形及其在自由边缘区域层间应力的分布情况·由于本文的分析方法可根据需要仅在应力梯度较大的局部区域，按单层逐层划分单元或在单层内再细化单元，以求得单层内精确的应力场和位移场，因此能显著节约计算量与机时，为具有大层数层压杆的扭转强度计算提供了一种有效的方法·     

Calculation of effective moduli of composite materials

Effective properties of composite and porous materials are determined by using an approach based on two-scale asymptotic expansions. Explicit approximate formulas are derived for the effective moduli of composite and porous materials of elongated structures. A numerical method is proposed for finding solutions to cell problems, which are used to determine “exact” effective moduli. Examples are computed for a two-dimensional porous medium with variously shaped pores and various degrees of “elongation.” The effective moduli produced by the explicit approximate formulas prove to be similar to those found by numerically solving cell problems.     

非完美界面弹性复合材料中的微分几何方法

首次用微分几何方法计算了含一般旋转椭球体嵌入相的非完美界面弹性复合材料的有效模量·用内蕴几何量表出了能量泛函中的全部界面积分项，由此得到了这种统一嵌入相模型的复合材料有效模量的上下界限·在三种极限情况，即球、盘和针状嵌入相下，本文的结果将退化到Ｈａｓｈｉｎ（１９９２）的结果·     

Resonance methods for determining the complex shear moduli of orthotropic composites

A survey of various methods for determining the complex elasticity and shear moduli from the resonant frequencies of flexural and torsional vibrations of rectangular rods cut out from a plate of an orthotropic composite is presented. The errors in the computed values of dynamic shear moduli caused by inaccuracies in the experimental determination of resonance frequencies are examined. A new variant of the resonance method is developed, which permits one to find three complex shear moduli of a composite from the resonant frequencies and the damping of torsional vibrations of three rods oriented along three symmetry axes of the material. For computing the moduli in the case of an overdetermined system, an algorithm of nonlinear optimization based on the least-squares method is recommended. From the results obtained it follows that, for determining the interlaminar shear moduli with a necessary accuracy, the rods must be sufficiently thick. It is shown that a good agreement alone between calculated and experimental frequencies of flexural and torsional vibrations of rods does not ensure a reliable determination of the moduli of interlaminar shear if experiments are carried out on wide test specimens cut out from a thin plate. Recommendations are given for the choice of geometrical sizes of test specimens for resonance experiments. __________ Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 43, No. 6, pp. 721–744, November–December, 2007.     

Interpolation on lattices generated by cubic pencils

Principal lattices are distributions of points in the plane obtained from a triangle by drawing equidistant parallel lines to the sides and taking the intersection points as nodes. Interpolation on principal lattices leads to particularly simple formulae. These sets were generalized by Lee and Phillips considering three-pencil lattices, generated by three linear pencils. Inspired by the addition of points on cubic curves and using duality, we introduce an addition of lines as a way of constructing lattices generated by cubic pencils. They include three-pencil lattices and then principal lattices. Interpolation on lattices generated by cubic pencils has the same good properties and simple formulae as on principal lattices. Dedicated to C.A. Micchelli for his mathematical contributions and friendship on occasion of his sixtieth birthday Mathematics subject classifications (2000) 41A05, 41A63, 65D05. J.M. Carnicer: Partially supported by the Spanish Research Grant BFM2003-03510, by Gobierno de Aragón and Fondo Social Europeo.     

Interpolation lattices in several variables

Principal lattices are classical simplicial configurations of nodes suitable for multivariate polynomial interpolation in n dimensions. A principal lattice can be described as the set of intersection points of n + 1 pencils of parallel hyperplanes. Using a projective point of view, Lee and Phillips extended this situation to n + 1 linear pencils of hyperplanes. In two recent papers, two of us have introduced generalized principal lattices in the plane using cubic pencils. In this paper we analyze the problem in n dimensions, considering polynomial, exponential and trigonometric pencils, which can be combined in different ways to obtain generalized principal lattices.We also consider the case of coincident pencils. An error formula for generalized principal lattices is discussed. Partially supported by the Spanish Research Grant BFM2003-03510, by Gobierno de Aragón and Fondo Social Europeo.     

Application of the method of conditional moments to investigating the deformation properties of orthotropic composites with fiber microdamages

A model of deformation of stochastic composites subjected to microdamage is developed for the case of orthotropic materials with microdamages accumulating in the fibers. The composite is treated as a matrix strengthened with elliptic fibers with orthotropic elastic properties. The fractured microvolumes are modeled by a system of randomly distributed quasi-spherical pores. The porosity balance equation and relations for determining the effective elastic moduli for the case of a fibrous composite with orthotropic components are used as the fundamental relations. The fracture criterion is given as a limit value of the intensity of average shear stresses occurring in the undamaged part of the material, which is assumed to be a random function of coordinates and is described by the Weibull distribution. Based on an analytical and numerical approach, the algorithm for determining the nonlinear deformation properties of such a material is constructed. The nonlinearity of composite deformations is caused by the accumulation of microdamages in the fibers. By using a numerical solution, the nonlinear stress–strain diagrams for an orthotropic composite in uniaxial tension are obtained. Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 17–30, January–February, 2009.     

横向剪切对双模量复合材料叠层矩形板非线性弯曲的影响

本文探讨了动力松弛(DR)法在双模量复合材料叠层矩形板非线性弯曲问题中的应用。在分析中分别采用叠层板大挠度经典理论和计及大转动(在Von Karman意义上)的复合材料叠层板剪切变形理论。我们发现,对于考虑横向剪切变形的非线性弯曲问题,如何计算虚拟密度以控制数值计算的稳定性,仍然需要进一步研究。本文提出了一种虚拟密度的计算方法,从而保证了本课题数值计算的稳定性。文中介绍了用DR法求解双模量复合材料叠层板非线性弯曲的主要步骤,给出了由轻度双模量材料(Born-Epxy(B-E))和高度双模量材料(Aramid-Rubber(A-R)和Polyester-Rubber(P-R))的两层正交叠层简支矩形板在正弦分布载荷及均布载荷作用下的非线性弯曲特性的数值结果。将所得结果和小挠度分析结果及普通复合材料的结果作了比较,并分析了横向剪切变形对无量纲中心挠度的影响。     

The effective shear modulus for an n-layered composite sphere

This work presents the derivation of the effective shear modulus for a heterogeneous material composed of multi-layered composite spheres embedded in a linear elastic matrix. It is based on the composite spheres model known from the literature. In contrast to previous publications the effective shear modulus is obtained by equating the results of two models: In the first model, a heterogeneous sphere is embedded in an equivalent homogeneous material, whereas in the second model, the heterogeneous sphere is replaced by an equivalent homogeneous sphere. In the context of both, a shear stress approach and a shear deformation approach, this results into an overdetermined system of equations which is solved with the least squares method. In a numerical study our results are compared to effective moduli and bounds from the literature. Furthermore, a convincing agreement with experimental data for glass microspheres embedded in a polyester matrix is demonstrated. (© 2017 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Asymptotic evaluation of effective complex moduli of fibre‐reinforced viscoelastic composite materials

We propose an asymptotic approach for the evaluation of effective complex moduli of viscoelastic fibre‐reinforced composite materials. Our method is based on the homogenization technique. We start with a non‐trivial expansion of the input plane‐strain boundary value problem by ratios of visco‐elastic constants. This allows to simplify the governing equations to forms analogous to the complex transport problem. Then we apply the asymptotic homogenization method, coming from the original problem on multi‐connected domain to the cell problem, defined on a unit cell of the periodic structure. For the analytical solution of the cell problem we apply the boundary perturbation technique, the asymptotic expansion by a distance between two neighbouring fibres and the method of two‐point Padé approximants. As results we derive uniform analytical representations for effective complex moduli, valid for all values of the components volume fractions and properties.