Role of exterior statistics-based boundary conditions for property-based statistically equivalent representative volume elements of polydispersed elastic composites:

2018 
The property-based statistically equivalent RVE or P-SERVE has been introduced in the literature as the smallest microstructural volume element in non-uniform microstructures that has effective material properties equivalent to those of the entire microstructure. An important consideration is the application of appropriate boundary conditions for optimal property-based statistically equivalent representative volume element domains. The exterior statistics-based boundary conditions have been developed, accounting for the statistics of fiber distributions and interactions in the domain exterior to the property-based statistically equivalent representative volume element. This paper is intended to validate the efficacy of the exterior statistics-based boundary condition-based property-based statistically equivalent representative volume elements for evaluating homogenized stiffnesses of a unidirectional polymer matrix composite with a polydispersed microstructure characterized by nonuniform dispersion of car...
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