Mechanical Properties of Porous Solids: Analysis of the connection between microstructure and mechanical properties of porous/microcracked materials

Oleg Prokopiev

ISBN 10: 3639139542 / ISBN 13: 9783639139549

Published by VDM Verlag 2009-06-09, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mechanical Properties of Porous Solids: Analysis of the connection between microstructure and mechanical properties of porous/microcracked materials
• Publisher: VDM Verlag 2009-06-09
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3639139542
• ISBN 13: 9783639139549
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Discovering accurate relations between microstructure and elastic properties of porous/microcracked solids always was a challenging task in material science. In the book these relations are investigated on an example of sintered hydroxyapatite and Fontainebleau sandstone. It is shown that isolated pores of irregular shapes may be approximated, with good accuracy, by the spheroidal ones. Several commonly used approximate schemes are applied to predict effective Young's and shear moduli of a material with spheroidal pores. The microstructural information (average shapes of pores) required for adequate modeling of the isotropic elastic properties is identified; if this information is utilized, the usual effective media schemes provide satisfactory predictions of the effective elastic properties. An attempt was made to recover the information about evolution of microstructure from the experimentally measured elastic moduli. The book addresses researchers, graduate and postgraduate students, as well as engineers, in the fields of micromechanics of solids and materials science.

About the Author

MS in Electric Power Engineering, St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University (Russia); PhD in Mechanical Engineering, New Mexico State University (USA); Project Engineer at Nations Petroleum USA Ltd., California.