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A family of one-dimensional (1D) elliptic boundary-value problems with periodic and rapidly-oscillating piecewise-smooth coefficients is considered. The coefficients depend on the local or fast variables corresponding to two different structural scales. A finite number of imperfect contact conditions are analyzed at each of the scales. The reiterated homogenization method (RHM) is used to construct a formal asymptotic solution. The homogenized problem, the local problems, and the corresponding effective coefficients are obtained. A variational formulation is derived to obtain an estimate to prove the proximity between the solutions of the original problem and the homogenized problem. Numerical computations are used to illustrate both the convergence of the solutions and the gain of the effective properties of a three-scale heterogeneous 1D laminate with respect to their two-scale counterparts. The theoretical and practical ideas exposed here could be used to mathematically model multidimensional problems involving multiscale composite materials with imperfect contact at the interfaces.
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The authors acknowledge the Cátedra Extraordinaria IIMAS-UNAM,México and PREI-DGAPA, UNAM, and are grateful to Ana Pérez Arteaga and Ramiro Chávez for the computational support. We would also like to thank to the reviewers for their valuable comments and to the editors for their inestimable assistance and suggestions.
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Citation: ÁLVAREZ-BORGES, F. E., BRAVO-CASTILLERO, J., CRUZ, M. E., GUINOVART-DÍAZ, R., PÉREZ-FERNÁNDEZ, L. D., RODRÍGUEZ-RAMOS, R., and SABINA, F. J. Reiterated homogenization of a laminate with imperfect contact: gain-enhancement of effective properties. Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (English Edition), 39(8), 1119–1146 (2018) https://doi.org/10.1007/s10483-018-2352-6
Project supported by the Desenvolvimento e Aplicações de Métodos Matemáticos de Homogeneização (CAPES) (No. 88881.030424/2013-01), the Homogeneização Reiterada Aplicada a Meios Dependentes de Múltiplas Escalas con Contato Imperfeito Entre as Fases (CNPq) (Nos. 450892/2016-6 and 303208/2014-7), and the Caracterización de Propiedades Efectivas de Tejidos Biológicos Sanos y Cancerosos (CONACYT) (No. 2016–01–3212)
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Álvarez-Borges, F.E., Bravo-Castillero, J., Cruz, M.E. et al. Reiterated homogenization of a laminate with imperfect contact: gain-enhancement of effective properties. Appl. Math. Mech.-Engl. Ed. 39, 1119–1146 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10483-018-2352-6
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Key words
- reiterated homogenization method (RHM)
- imperfect contact
- variational formulation
- effective coefficient gain