[HTML][HTML] Micromechanics of spatially uniform heterogeneous media: A critical review and emerging approaches

MJ Pindera, H Khatam, AS Drago, Y Bansal - Composites Part B …, 2009 - Elsevier
Outside of the classical microstructural detail-free estimates of effective moduli,
micromechanical analyses of macroscopically uniform heterogeneous media may be …

Thirty years of the finite volume method for solid mechanics

P Cardiff, I Demirdžić - Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2021 - Springer
Since early publications in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the finite volume method has
been shown suitable for solid mechanics analyses. At present, there are several flavours of …

Functionally graded materials in engineering

V Birman, T Keil, S Hosder - Structural interfaces and attachments in …, 2012 - Springer
Functionally graded materials (FGM) are composite materials formed of two or more
constituent phases with a continuously variable distribution. The variations in the phase …

Parametric finite-volume micromechanics of periodic materials with elastoplastic phases

H Khatam, MJ Pindera - International Journal of Plasticity, 2009 - Elsevier
The recently incorporated parametric mapping capability into the finite-volume direct
averaging micromechanics (FVDAM) theory has produced a paradigm shift in the theory's …

[HTML][HTML] Finite-volume micromechanics of periodic materials: past, present and future

MAA Cavalcante, MJ Pindera, H Khatam - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2012 - Elsevier
The finite-volume method is now a well-established tool in the numerical engineering
community for simulation of a wide range of problems in fluid and solid mechanics. Its …

[HTML][HTML] Homogenization of elastic–plastic periodic materials by FVDAM and FEM approaches–An assessment

MAA Cavalcante, H Khatam, MJ Pindera - Composites Part B: Engineering, 2011 - Elsevier
The standard computational approach for the homogenization of elastic–plastic response of
periodic materials is the finite-element method. Amongst the emerging alternatives, the finite …

Checkerboard free topology optimization for compliance minimization applying the finite-volume theory

MVO Araujo, EN Lages, MAA Cavalcante - Mechanics Research …, 2020 - Elsevier
The purpose of this research is to demonstrate that the numerical issue associated with the
checkerboard patterns can be entirely controlled by applying the finite-volume theory …

Parametric finite-volume micromechanics of uniaxial continuously-reinforced periodic materials with elastic phases

M Gattu, H Khatam, AS Drago, MJ Pindera - 2008 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
The finite-volume direct averaging micromechanics (FVDAM) theory for periodic
heterogeneous materials is extended by incorporating parametric mapping into the theory's …

The morphological effect of carbon fibers on the thermal conductive composites

G Wang, M Gao, B Yang, Q Chen - International Journal of Heat and Mass …, 2020 - Elsevier
The locally-exact homogenization theory (LEHT) with thermal conductive capability is
developed to investigate the morphological effect of carbon/graphite fibers on the effective …

Numerical solutions for functionally graded solids under thermal and mechanical loads using a high-order control volume finite element method

J Chareonsuk, P Vessakosol - Applied Thermal Engineering, 2011 - Elsevier
In this article, a high-order control volume finite element method (CVFEM) is proposed to
explore thermal stress analysis for functionally graded materials (FGMs) at steady state with …