The foundations of classical homogenization techniques, which aim at predicting the overall
behavior of heterogeneous materials from that of their constituents, are reviewed. After …

Interphase regions that form in heterogeneous materials through various underlying
mechanisms such as poor mechanical or chemical adherence, roughness, and coating, play …

The imperfect interface conditions which are equivalent to the effect of a thin elastic
interphase are derived by a Taylor expansion method in terms of interface displacement and …

This book presents a broad exposition of analytical and numerical methods for modeling
composite materials, laminates, polycrystals and other heterogeneous solids, with emphasis …

In the present report some basic issues of and some of the modeling strategies used for
studying static and quasistatic problems in continuum micromechanics of materials are …

The N-layered spherical inclusion theory is applied to develop a multi-scale model to predict
the effective diffusion coefficient of chloride ion in concrete. The model treats concrete as …

One of the main specific aspects of continuum micromechanics is related to the fact that one
has generally to deal with ill-defined bodies: only partial information on the statistical …

A general theory for the homogenization of heterogeneous linear elastic materials that relies
on the concept of “morphologically representative pattern” is given. It allows the derivation of …

The determination of the chloride diffusion coefficient of a concrete is needed to help the
prediction of the service life of concrete structure. In this paper, we propose first a critical …

Engineering materials continue to encounter challenges for new property combinations, and
these challenges are leading to many hybrid materials known as composites. Particulate …