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Numerical identification of properties of particle-reinforced composite materials

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The paper deals with numerical identification of the average elastic properties of particle-reinforced composite materials. The finite element method for the determination of deformation energy of the characteristic volume element was used. In earlier analytical investigations, an approximation function of the averaged elastic properties of the composite was derived. An identification procedure allows the estimation of the unknown approximation parameters from numerical experiments. The obtained functions describe precisely the numerical data for any relationships between constituents of the material.

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Institute of Computer Analysis of Structures, Riga Technical University, Riga PDP-1658, Latvia. Institute of Materials Science, Department of Materials Science, Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg, D-06099 Halle, Germany. Published in Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 34, No. 3, pp. 383–390, May–June, 1998.

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Kushnevsky, V. Numerical identification of properties of particle-reinforced composite materials. Mech Compos Mater 34, 279–284 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02256047

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