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Conductivity of periodic composites made of matrix and polydispersed aggregates
1Université Paris-Est, Laboratoire Modelisation et Simulation Multi Echelle, MSME UMR 8208 CNRS, 5 Boulevard Descartes, 77454 Marne-la-Vallée Cedex 2, France.
Abstract:
We present closed-form expressions of the effective conductivity of composites made of matrix and impenetrable polydispersed particles. The approach developed in a recent work has been generalized to treat periodic multiphase composite materials. Particular cases including orthorhombic arrangements of spherical or spheroidal inclusions and random distributions of spheres are considered where simple closed-form expressions are obtained. The case of random distributions allows us to recover Mori-Tanaka estimation after introducing partial structure factors as a statistical information on the microstructure.
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