2015-Sustainable Industrial Processing Summit
SIPS 2015 Volume 1: Aifantis Intl. Symp. / Multiscale Material Mechanics
| Editors: | Kongoli F, Bordas S, Estrin Y |
| Publisher: | Flogen Star OUTREACH |
| Publication Year: | 2015 |
| Pages: | 300 pages |
| ISBN: | 978-1-987820-24-9 |
| ISSN: | 2291-1227 (Metals and Materials Processing in a Clean Environment Series) |
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Mechanics of Multiscale and Statistically Heterogeneous Materials
George Frantziskonis1;1, Tucson, United States;
Type of Paper: Invited
Id Paper: 493
Topic: 1
Abstract:
Materials with structure realized statistically at diverse scales show interesting mechanical properties that can be tailored to different applications. In addition to being able to tailor their mechanical properties, their strength reliability can be adjusted and in certain cases near perfect strength reliability can be achieved. The key is that spatial scales interact with each other and this interaction offers unique and extensive possibilities for mechanical properties and strength reliability. In certain cases, a certain scale or a tight range of scales dominate the material properties. For such cases where also the heterogeneity is statistically homogeneous, a spatial correlation distance can be identified that is closely relevant to the length scales appearing in gradient theories developed by Aifantis.