A reliable way to determine the effective properties of heterogeneous media plays an
important role in engineering design. As an experimental test to obtain effective properties …

Cellular materials can be designed to achieve mechanical properties with low weight.
Among them, hollow spheres have been investigated since modern manufacturing methods …

Homogenization techniques are very important in describing the mechanical behavior of
high performance composite materials. Among the different techniques applied to this …

This article presents different micromechanical modelling techniques based on analytical
and numerical approaches to determine the effective elastic and piezoelectric (piezoelastic) …

Success in design and application of composite materials to a large extend depends on the
use of the adequate strength and failure criteria. The World-Wide Failure Exercise (WWFE) …

This paper presents the development of an ABAQUS™ plug-in for estimation of the effective
properties of heterogeneous three-dimensional periodic media using the asymptotic …

The aim of the present work consists of predicting the effective coefficients of constitutive
tensor for layered composites with delamination in macro-scale considering the influence of …

Piezoelectric materials are able to produce an electrical response when mechanically
stressed (sensors) and inversely high precision motion can be obtained with the application …

The average thermo-elastoplastic properties of particle reinforced metal matrix composites
(PRMMC) including the average coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE), Young's modulus …

This study consists of the calculation of the effective properties for active fiber composites
made of either circular or square cross-section fibers not only by using finite element …