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Elasticity In Microstructure Sensitive Design Through The Use Of Hill Bounds, Benjamin L. Henrie
Elasticity In Microstructure Sensitive Design Through The Use Of Hill Bounds, Benjamin L. Henrie
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In engineering, materials are often assumed to be homogeneous and isotropic; in actuality, material properties do change with sample direction and location. This variation is due to the anisotropy of the individual grains and their spatial distribution in the material. Currently there is a lack of communication between the design engineer, material scientist, and processor for solving multi-objective/constrained designs. If communication existed between these groups then materials could be designed for applications, instead of the reverse. Microstructure sensitive design introduces a common language, a spectral representation, where both design properties and microstructures are expressed.
Using Hill bounds, effective elastic properties …