On the Mori-Tanaka's method in cracked bodies
On the Mori-Tanaka's method in cracked bodies
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DOI:
10.1016/0093-6413(86)90018-2
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发表时间:
1986-07
影响因子:
2.4
通讯作者:
Y. Benveniste
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作者:
Y. Benveniste
The purpose of this paper is to apply the Mori-Tanaka's method [I] to the computation of the effective moduli of cracked bodies without using the equivalent inclusion and eigenstrain concepts. This powerful method which originated in studies of heterogeneous media modifies Eshelby's equivalent inclusion formalism [2], so as to take into account the interaction between the inhomogeneities. Having almost always been applied to problems involving ellipsoidal particles or ellipsoidal pores coalescing into cracks, it has been invariantly linked with the equivalent inclusion and eigenstrain concepts, see for example [3],[4],[5],[6] and the book by Mura [7] for a comprehensive presentation of these ideas. In essence, what the method does, is to use the solution of a single inclusion in the all-matrix medium in a special way which incorporates the interaction between the particles.The present paper presents the application of the Mori-Tanaka's method to the computation of the effective moduli of cracked bodies in a direct manner. In order to illustrate the presented version of the theory and highlight its essential assumptions we chose to apply it first, in the brief opening section, to the computation of the effective bulk modulus of a particulate composite with spherical particles. The second and main section of the paper is concerned with the effective moduli of a body with randomly oriented cracks. To the best knowledge of the author, the existing models in this context of randomly cracked bodies are the self-consistent scheme (see for example [8],[9] and [10]) and the generalized self-conslstent method [11]. It is shown in this section that the presented version of the Mori-Tanaka's method as applied to the computation of the effective constants of cracked bodies is of striking simplicity; it does net use the equivalent inclusion and eigenstrain ideas nor energy concepts, and is readily developed from the dilute concentration anal ysi s.