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Homogenization with Eshelby: Multiple Inclusions, Effective Moduli

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ME-437: Advanced solid mechanics

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This lecture covers the concept of homogenization with Eshelby, focusing on multiple inclusions and effective moduli. The instructor explains how the field of one inclusion affects the response of all others, leading to a coupled problem. By considering average inclusion and matrix stresses, the lecture delves into the calculation of effective applied fields and strains. The analysis involves inserting infinitesimal 'test' inclusions into the matrix and determining the stress in the inclusions. The lecture concludes with the derivation of the effective stiffness tensor and its significance in composite materials.

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Materials science: Deformation of materials

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Stress–strain analysis (or stress analysis) is an engineering discipline that uses many methods to determine the stresses and strains in materials and structures subjected to forces. In continuum mechanics, stress is a physical quantity that expresses the internal forces that neighboring particles of a continuous material exert on each other, while strain is the measure of the deformation of the material. In simple terms we can define stress as the force of resistance per unit area, offered by a body against deformation.

Stress (mechanics)

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Infinitesimal strain theory

In continuum mechanics, the infinitesimal strain theory is a mathematical approach to the description of the deformation of a solid body in which the displacements of the material particles are assumed to be much smaller (indeed, infinitesimally smaller) than any relevant dimension of the body; so that its geometry and the constitutive properties of the material (such as density and stiffness) at each point of space can be assumed to be unchanged by the deformation.

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