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Micromechanics of materials is rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of engineering science. It is developed by specialists in solid mechanics, applied mathematics and materials science. Micromechanics studies materials that can be generally characterized as multiphase mixtures. Perhaps, the most important class of them can be described as a matrix containing various inhomogeneities, like pores, microcracks, fibers, foreign particles. Another example is given by polycrystalline aggregates (like metals), consisting of crystallites of diverse orientations. Such materials may be man-made (composites, metals, foams) and may occur in nature (cracked or porous rocks, ice, bones). The goal of micromechanics is to relate the physical behavior (mechanical, conductive, etc.) to the ''microstructure" -properties and geometrical arrangement of the constituents. The general term ''physical behavior" actually comprises two aspects: Overall, or ''effective" properties (elastic moduli, conductivities, etc) -properties that are averages over certain representative volumes. Studies of them have been the main emphasis of micromechanics in the last decades. ''Detailed" physical fields (fields of str
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- Author
- Igor Sevostianov
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0020-7225)
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Engineering (Physical Sciences)