Author: Amine MikdamPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Heterogeneities of materials may be due either to different atomic or molecular organization in the same material (semi-crystalline polymer or polycrystals), or to the presence of different constituents (composite materials). To determine the physical properties of these materials, experimentations, although expensive, is still necessary. Other disadvantages such as difficulty of implementing experimental procedures complicate the work of the researchers and engineers. Therefore modeling the effective properties using analytical models is positioned as a performance alternative to facilitate the understanding of the behavior of these heterogeneous materials. Many analytical models based on the volume fraction of each phase are used to predict the effective properties of heterogeneous materials. However, these models are based on different geometrical simplifications of the real material's microstructure. This work investigates the modeling of effective conductivity (electrical or thermal) of heterogeneous materials using statistical continuum theory. This methods use probability functions to take into account the microstructure distribution, shape of constituents and their orientations.