For linearly elastic heterogeneous solids, averaging theorems are developed by Nemat-Nasser and Hori (S. Nemat-Nasser, M. Hori, Micromechanics: Overall Properties of Heterogeneous Solids, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1993; and S. Nemat-Nasser, M. Hori, J. Eng. Mater. Technol. 117 (1995) 412), using a multi-inclusion model. This model is based on the observation that the average strain and stress in any...

The multilayered composite structure has been utilized frequently in the literature of periodic homogenization as a test case for developing new methodologies linear and nonlinear media. manuscript demonstrates that these composites can also be used validating mean-field micromechanics techniques. It is shown Mori–Tanaka method combined with Transformation Field Analysis provides same solution ...

Colloidal suspension of monodispersed charged polystyrene microspheres provides an excellent experimental system for a study of condensed matter physics. Here we report a series of experiments using video microscopy to study the structure and dynamics of colloidal matter. In the first set of experiments, we give a clear demonstration of how thermal fluctuations destroy positional order in one d...

A micromechanics based analysis to predict damage initiation in compressively loaded symmetric notched multiply laminates at efevated temperature under remote biaxial loading is described. The finite element method in conjunction with the commercial code ABAQUS® is used to solve the governing system of equations. The results obtained for the predictions are compared against a set of experimenta...