Representative volume element size for elastic composites: A numerical study

作者: Andrei A. Gusev

DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5096(97)00016-1

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摘要: Abstract Monte Carlo (MC) runs are employed to generate statistically independent realizations of a periodic elastic composite with disordered unit cell made up 8, 27, and 64 nonoverlapping identical spheres. In the limit an infinite number spheres in cell, this obeys Percus-Yevick hard-sphere statistics. By construction, MC studied have same inclusion fraction. A constant-strain-tetrahedra displacement-based finite element code iterative solver is used calculate overall constants these realizations. It appears that scatter individual already obtained few dozen remarkably small averages varying numbers practically stationary.

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