...Neal R. Brodnik; Chun-Jen Hsueh; Katherine T. Faber; Blaise Bourdin; Guruswami Ravichandran; Kaushik Bhattacharya The problem of toughening heterogeneous materials with a stiff matrix and compliant inclusions is investigated through numerical simulations and experiments. Specifically, the problem...

...H. X. Li A nonlinear mathematical programming approach together with the finite element method and homogenization technique is developed to implement kinematic shakedown analysis for a microstructure under cyclic/repeated loading. The macroscopic shakedown limit of a heterogeneous material...

...Anthony S. Drago; Marek-Jerzy Pindera Elements of the homogenization theory are utilized to develop a new micromechanics approach for unit cells of periodic heterogeneous materials based on locally exact elasticity solutions. The interior inclusion problem is exactly solved by using Fourier series...