Thermal conductivity of Cu-matrix composites reinforced with coated SiC particles: Numerical modeling and experimental verification

W Węglewski, P Pitchai, M Chmielewski… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Copper-matrix composites reinforced with silicon carbide (SiC) particles are heat sink
materials with potential application in the electronic industry. A major challenge in the …

Thermal conductivity in spherical and circular inclusion composites with highly-and lowly-conducting imperfect interfaces

DC Pham, TK Nguyen - International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2022 - Elsevier
The variational three-point correlation results are specified to the problem of conductivity of
doubly-coated sphere (circle) assemblage. Limiting procedure is developed to deduce the …

Solutions for the conductivity of multi-coated spheres and spherically symmetric inclusion problems

DC Pham - Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik, 2018 - Springer
Variational results on the macroscopic conductivity (thermal, electrical, etc.) of the multi-
coated sphere assemblage have been used to derive the explicit expression of the …

Equivalent-inclusion approach and effective medium approximations for elastic moduli of compound-inclusion composites

BV Tran, DC Pham, THG Nguyen - Archive of Applied Mechanics, 2015 - Springer
Effective medium approximations are developed to estimate the elastic moduli of
macroscopically isotropic suspensions of compound inclusions in a continuous matrix …

Elastic unidirectional cylindrically-symmetric-fiber composites with general radially-variable anisotropic coatings

DC Pham, BV Tran, HQ Nguyen - Mechanics of Materials, 2022 - Elsevier
Differential substitution/coating schemes have been developed to construct various explicit
expressions or determining initial-valued ordinary differential equations for the effective …

Conduction in 2-D and 3-D dimensional spherically-symmetric anisotropic-coating inclusion composites

TK Nguyen, DC Pham, VL Nguyen - International Journal of Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Based on the variational three-point correlation results for the conductivity (thermal,
electrical,...) of the multi-coated sphere assemblages, limiting procedures have been …

The microscopic conduction fields in the multi-coated sphere composites under the imposed macroscopic gradient and flux fields

DC Pham, TK Nguyen - Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik, 2019 - Springer
Explicit analytical expressions of the microscopic conduction (gradient or flux) fields in the d-
dimensional (d= 2, 3 d= 2, 3) multi-coated sphere assemblages under the imposed …

General imperfect interface model for spherical–circular inclusion composites

DC Pham, TK Nguyen - Acta Mechanica, 2024 - Springer
From the compound sphere assemblage model involving the intermediate anisotropic
coatings and appropriate limiting procedure, a general imperfect interface model for thermal …

Stochastic analysis of a three phase composite using variational asymptotic based homogenization technique coupled with stochastic reduced order model

P Pitchai, D Harursampath, PJ Guruprasad - Composite Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
The current work describes a stochastic framework to investigate the static response
characteristics of periodic and random fiber arrays of reinforced three-phase composites …

An adaptive approach for the chloride diffusivity of cement-based materials

BV Tran, DC Pham, MD Loc, MC Le - Computers and Concrete, 2019 - koreascience.kr
Adaptive schemes are constructed in this paper for modeling the effective chloride diffusion
coefficient of cement-based materials (paste and concrete). Based on the polarization …