Recent advances in the characterisation and modelling of microstresses developed
between grains and phases in a polycrystal are reviewed. The evolution of microstresses in …

The local and overall responses of nonlinear composites are classically investigated by the
Finite Element Method. We propose an alternate method based on Fourier series which …

The numerous approaches used in micromechanics can be classified into four broad
categories: perturbation methods, self-consistent methods of truncation of a hierarchy …

This work concerns composite materials called “syntactic foams”, ie, materials made by a
polymeric matrix filled with hollow solid inclusions. Explicit formulae for the homogenized …

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 …

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 …

This work presents a combined numerical and theoretical study of the effective behavior and
statistics of the local fields in random viscoplastic composites. The full-field numerical …

Materials that are either manufactured or occur in nature and used both in industry and in
our daily lives (metals, rocks, wood, soil, suspensions, and biological tissue) are very …

Assuming an equi‐incremental mechanical work in each constituent in stress‐strain mixture
law, this article focuses on the interest of this approach through comparison with …

A systematic comparison of inhomogeneity shape effects on the linear elastic, thermoelastic
and thermal conduction responses of particle reinforced composites is carried out. For this …