Effect of overlapping inclusions on effective elastic properties of composites

•Numerical homogenization technique based on the notion of the RVE.•Morphological analysis of two phase heterogeneous materials.•Effect of the overlapping on the properties of heterogeneous materials.•Equivalent morphology concept.•Boolean and hard models of spheres. We are considering, in this stud...

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Published in:Mechanics research communications 2013-10, Vol.53, p.24-30
Main Authors: Moumen, Ahmed El, Kanit, Toufik, Imad, Abdellatif, Minor, Hassan E.L.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Engineering Sciences
Equivalent morphology
Heterogeneous materials
Homogenization technique
Numerical simulations
Overlapping spheres
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Summary:•Numerical homogenization technique based on the notion of the RVE.•Morphological analysis of two phase heterogeneous materials.•Effect of the overlapping on the properties of heterogeneous materials.•Equivalent morphology concept.•Boolean and hard models of spheres. We are considering, in this study, to quantify the difference between two morphologies: heterogeneous materials with overlapping identical spherical inclusions and heterogeneous materials with identical hard one. Coupling with numerical simulations, the statistical analysis of microstructures morphology was used to evaluate the representativeness of results. The methodology, developed in Kanit et al. (2003), is used to determine exactly the integral range (IR), variance and covariance of each microstructure type. The obtained results show that the integral range of microstructures with hard spheres, is simply, the volume of one inclusion in the deterministic representative volume element, and for microstructures with overlapping spheres, is 8 times the integral range in the case of hard spheres. The obtained results suggest us to define a new concept what we propose to name the Equivalent Morphology Concept (EMC). The relationships between parameters of two microstructures are presented.
ISSN:0093-6413
1873-3972
DOI:10.1016/j.mechrescom.2013.07.007