Preface |
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1 Introduction --- background, objectives and basic concepts |
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1.1 The concept of length scales and typical length scales in physics and engineering |
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3 | (1) |
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4 | (1) |
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1.3 Representative volume element and unit cell |
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5 | (1) |
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1.4 Background of this monograph |
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6 | (1) |
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1.5 Objectives of this monograph |
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1.6 The structure of this monograph |
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8 | (2) |
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10 | (1) |
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2 Symmetry, symmetry transformations and symmetry conditions |
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11 | (1) |
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2.2 Geometric transformations and the concept of symmetry |
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12 | (4) |
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2.3 Symmetry of physical fields |
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2.4 Continuity and free body diagrams |
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24 | (4) |
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28 | (13) |
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41 | (1) |
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42 | (1) |
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3 Material categorisation and material characterisation |
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43 | (24) |
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43 | (2) |
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3.2 Material categorisation |
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45 | (15) |
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3.3 Material characterisation |
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60 | (4) |
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64 | (1) |
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64 | (3) |
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4 Representative volume elements and unit cells |
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67 | (12) |
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67 | (1) |
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68 | (3) |
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71 | (5) |
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76 | (1) |
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77 | (2) |
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5 Common erroneous treatments and their conceptual sources of errors |
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5.1 Realistic or hypothetic background |
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79 | (3) |
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5.2 The construction of RVEs and their boundary |
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82 | (2) |
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5.3 The construction of UCs |
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84 | (12) |
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96 | (2) |
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5.5 Implementation issues |
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98 | (3) |
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5.6 Verification and the lack of `sanity checks' |
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101 | (1) |
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102 | (1) |
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103 | (4) |
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Part Two Consistent formulation of unit cells and representative volume elements |
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6 Formulation of unit cells |
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107 | (82) |
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107 | (1) |
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6.2 Relative displacement field and rigid body rotations |
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108 | (6) |
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6.3 Relative displacement boundary conditions for unit cells |
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114 | (1) |
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6.4 Typical unit cells and their boundary conditions in terms of relative displacements |
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115 | (61) |
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6.5 Requirements on meshing |
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176 | (1) |
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6.6 Key degrees of freedom and average strains |
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177 | (2) |
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6.7 Average stresses and effective material properties |
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179 | (3) |
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6.8 Thermal expansion coefficients |
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182 | (1) |
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6.9 "Sanity checks" as basic verifications |
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183 | (2) |
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185 | (2) |
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187 | (2) |
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7 Periodic traction boundary conditions and the key degrees of freedom for unit cells |
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189 | (34) |
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189 | (4) |
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7.2 Boundaries and boundary conditions for unit cells resulting from translational symmetries |
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193 | (4) |
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7.3 Total potential energy and variational principle for unit cells under prescribed average strains |
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197 | (1) |
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7.4 Periodic traction boundary conditions as the natural boundary conditions for unit cells |
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198 | (4) |
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7.5 The nature of the reactions at the prescribed key degrees of freedom |
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202 | (7) |
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7.6 Prescribed concentrated `forces' at the key degrees of freedom |
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209 | (2) |
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211 | (8) |
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219 | (1) |
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220 | (3) |
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8 Further symmetries within a UC |
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223 | (96) |
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223 | (2) |
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8.2 Further reflectional symmetries to existing translational symmetries |
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225 | (26) |
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8.3 Further rotational symmetries to existing translational symmetries |
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251 | (40) |
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8.4 Examples of mixed reflectional and rotational symmetries |
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291 | (12) |
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8.5 Centrally reflectional symmetry |
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303 | (11) |
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8.6 Guidance to the sequence of exploiting existing symmetries |
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314 | (1) |
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315 | (2) |
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317 | (2) |
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9 RVE for media with randomly distributed inclusions |
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319 | (28) |
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319 | (1) |
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9.2 Displacement boundary conditions and traction boundary conditions for an RVE |
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320 | (3) |
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9.3 Decay length for boundary effects |
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323 | (4) |
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9.4 Generation of random patterns |
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327 | (3) |
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9.5 Strain and stress fields in the RVE and the sub-domain |
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330 | (6) |
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9.6 Post-processing for average stresses, strains and effective properties |
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336 | (9) |
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345 | (1) |
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345 | (2) |
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347 | (14) |
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347 | (1) |
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347 | (4) |
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10.3 Relative concentration field |
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351 | (2) |
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10.4 An example of a cuboidal unit cell |
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353 | (2) |
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355 | (1) |
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10.6 Post-processing for average concentration gradients and diffusion fluxes |
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356 | (4) |
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360 | (1) |
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360 | (1) |
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11 Boundaries of applicability of representative volume elements and unit cells |
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361 | (10) |
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361 | (1) |
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11.2 Predictions of elastic properties and strengths |
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361 | (2) |
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11.3 Representative volume elements |
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363 | (3) |
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366 | (1) |
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366 | (1) |
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367 | (4) |
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Part Three Further developments |
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12 Applications to textile composites |
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371 | (46) |
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371 | (10) |
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12.2 Use of symmetries when defining an effective UC |
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381 | (2) |
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12.3 Unit cells for two-dimensional textile composites |
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383 | (15) |
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12.4 Unit cells for three-dimensional textile composites |
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398 | (16) |
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414 | (1) |
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415 | (2) |
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13 Application of unit cells to problems of finite deformation |
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417 | (22) |
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417 | (2) |
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13.2 Unit cell modelling at finite deformations |
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419 | (14) |
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13.3 The uncertainties associated with material definition |
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433 | (3) |
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436 | (1) |
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437 | (2) |
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14 Automated implementation: UnitCells© composites characterisation code |
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439 | (20) |
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439 | (2) |
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14.2 Abaqus/CAE modelling practicality |
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441 | (9) |
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14.3 Verification and validation |
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450 | (6) |
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456 | (1) |
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456 | (3) |
Index |
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