Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7212347 | Composites Part B: Engineering | 2018 | 21 Pages |
Abstract
In this work, we adopt a statistically-based micropolar homogenization procedure, to obtain the overall elastic properties of homogeneous micropolar continua able to naturally account for scale and skew-symmetric shear effects. Attention is paid to the sensitivity to material contrast, defined as the mismatch between classical and micropolar constitutive properties of matrix and inclusions. A statistical specifically conceived convergence criterion is adopted which allow us to identify the REV (Representative Volume Element) for any value of material contrast.
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Authors
Emanuele Reccia, Maria Laura De Bellis, Patrizia Trovalusci, Renato Masiani,