1st Edition. — Butterworth-Heinemann, 2012. 984 p. — ISBN-13: 978-0-12-397035-0.
This book provides a detailed treatment of a unified family of micromechanics theories for multiphase materials developed by the authors over the past 30 years. These theories are applicable to composites with both periodic and nonperiodic (bounded) microstructures. A unique and important feature of these theories is their ability to provide not only the global effective composite properties, but also the varying local field distributions within the constituent materials. This capability enables the modeling of localized nonlinear phenomena such as damage and inelasticity, which are critical to the prediction of composite failure and life. In addition, because these theories can produce a macroscopic, nonlinear, anisotropic constitutive relation for the multiphase material, they are ideal for incorporation within multiscale analyses. Any higher scale method or model can therefore call these theories as an effective constitutive equation to obtain the local nonlinear response and to recover the local fields at any point within the composite structure. The resulting micro-macro-structural analysis capability is quite unique and is facilitated by the inherent computational efficiency of these micromechanics theories. Further, the nonperiodic versions of the micromechanics theories explicitly link the macro and micro scales, thus enabling concurrent analysis of problems where no repeating unit cell exists. An additional unique feature of the unified micromechanics approach described herein is its ability to be readily extended to handle many technologically relevant aspects of advanced composite materials. These include composites (1) undergoing finite deformations, (2) subjected to dynamic impact conditions, (3) composed of smart (electro-magneto-thermo-elastic, electrostrictive, and shape memory alloy) constituents, and (4) exhibiting full (two-way) thermomechanical coupling. Thus, the authors believe that this book fills a void as most other books on composites emphasize the macromechanics approach and provide little treatment of nonlinearity in general and the above topics in particular. The three of us wrote this book over the past several years, predominantly while the first author visited NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, OH each year.We have attempted to highlight key lessons learned in developing and applying these theories over the past two decades. Consequently, we hope that this unified multiscale approach will help provide materials scientists, researchers, engineers, and structural designers with a better understanding of composite mechanics at all scales, and thereby contribute to composites reaching their full potential. More related materials to this book could be found at the companion website: http:// booksite.elsevier.com/9780123970350/. The password is Solutions.
