Random Heterogeneous Materials : Microstructure and Macroscopic Properties /

The study of random heterogeneous materials is an exciting and rapidly growing multidisciplinary endeavor. This field demands a unified rigorous means of characterizing the microstructures and macroscopic properties of the widely diverse types of heterogeneous materials that abound in nature and syn...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Torquato, S.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2002.
Series:Interdisciplinary applied mathematics ; 16.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Microstructural characterization: Microstructural descriptors. Statistical mechanics of particle systems. Unified approach. Monodisperse spheres. Polydisperse spheres
  • Anisotropic media. Cell and random-field models. Percolation and clustering. Some continuum percolation results. Local volume fraction fluctuation. Computer simulation and image analysis
  • Part II. Microstructure property connections: Local and homogenized equations. Variational Principles. Phase-interchange relations. Exact results. Single-inclusion solutions. Effective medium approximations. Cluster expansions. Exact contrast expansions. Rigorous bounds. Evaluation of bounds. Cross-property relations.