Prediction of the Overall Elastic Behavior of Composites by Homogenization Method

摘要

The objective of this study was to determine the overall thermal elastic behavior of composites by homogenization method. The results obtained were compared with those by other well-known methods such as mean field method, self-consistent method and etc.A good agreement is achieved and thus a reliable method for predicting the effective behavior of composite is presented. It is very easy to extend this method to multi-phase composite. The material properties determined here include elastic modulus, Poisson ratio and thermal expansion coefficient (CTE).