Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cheng, Geng-Dong
• Cai, Yuan-Wu
• Xu, Liang

Titel

Novel implementation of homogenization method to predict effective properties of periodic materials

Ist Teil von

• Acta mechanica Sinica, 2013-08, Vol.29 (4), p.550-556

Ort / Verlag

Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

SpringerLink

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Representative volume element （RVE） method and asymptotic homogenization （AH） method are two widely used methods in predicting effective properties of pe- riodic materials. This paper develops a novel implementa- tion of the AH method, which has rigorous mathematical foundation of the AH method, and also simplicity as the RVE method. This implementation can be easily realized using commercial software as a black box, and can use all kinds of elements available in commercial software to model unit cells with rather complicated microstructures, so the model may remain a fairly small scale. Several examples were car- fled out to demonstrate the simplicity and effectiveness of the new implementation.