Self-Consistent Methods for Composites: Vol.1: Static Problems (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, 148) - Hardcover

Kanaun, S.K.; Levin, V.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1402066635 ISBN 13: 9781402066634

Publisher: Springer, 2007

Synopsis

This timely text is the first monograph to develop self-consistent methods and apply these to the solution of problems of electromagnetic and elastic wave propagation in matrix composites and polycrystals. Predictions are compared with experimental data and exact solutions. Explicit equations and efficient numerical algorithms for calculating the velocities and attenuation coefficients of the mean (coherent) wave fields propagating in composites and polycrystals are presented.

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The book is dedicated to the application of self-consistent methods to the solution of static and dynamic problems of the mechanics and physics of composite materials. The effective elastic, electric, dielectric, thermo-conductive and other properties of composite materials reinforced by ellipsoidal, spherical multi-layered inclusions, thin hard and soft inclusions, short fibers and unidirected multi-layered fibers are considered. Explicit formulas and efficient computational algorithms for the calculation of the effective properties of the composites are presented and analyzed. The method of the effective medium and the method of the effective field are developed for the calculation of the phase velocities and attenuation of the mean (coherent) wave fields propagating in the composites. The predictions of the methods are compared with experimental data and exact solutions for the composites with periodical microstructures. The book may be useful for material engineers creating new composite materials and scholars who work on the theory of composite and non-homogeneous media.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1402066635
• ISBN 13: 9781402066634
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 400