Accession Number:

AD0412503

Title:

THEORY OF MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF HETEROGENEOUS MEDIA

Descriptive Note:

Technical rept.

Corporate Author:

TOWNE SCHOOL OF CIVIL AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING PHILADELPHIA PA

Personal Author(s):

• Hashin, Zvi

Report Date:

1963-07-01

Pagination or Media Count:

44.0

Abstract:

Theoretical methods and results are reviewed in the field of prediction of bulk mechanical properties of heterogeneous media, in terms of mechanical properties and geometry of constituents. The term heterogeneous medium is here understood as a mixture of discrete homogeneous phases which form regions that are large enough to be regarded as continua. The mechanical behavior of each phase is known in terms of stress-strain relations and at phase interfaces usual continuity conditions on stress vectors and displacements or velocities are specified.

Descriptors:

• *MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
• MEDIA
• PHASE VELOCITY
• SHEAR PROPERTIES
• STATISTICS
• TENSORS

Subject Categories:

• Mechanics

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE