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By Muhammad Sahimi

This booklet describes and discusses the houses of heterogeneous fabrics. The homes thought of comprise the conductivity (thermal, electric, magnetic), elastic moduli, dielectrical consistent, optical homes, mechanical fracture, and electric and dielectrical breakdown homes. either linear and nonlinear homes are thought of. The nonlinear homes comprise people with constitutive non-linearities in addition to threshold non-linearities, similar to brittle fracture and dielectric breakdown. a primary target of this e-book is to match basic techniques to describing and predicting fabrics homes, particularly, the continuum mechanics method, and people in response to the discrete versions. The latter versions contain the lattice versions and the atomistic methods. The e-book offers complete and recent theoretical and laptop simulation research of fabrics' homes. commonplace experimental equipment for measuring all of those houses are defined, and comparability is made among the experimental facts and the theoretical predictions. quantity I covers linear houses, whereas quantity II considers non-linear and fracture and breakdown homes, in addition to atomistic modeling. This multidisciplinary booklet will entice utilized physicists, fabrics scientists, chemical and mechanical engineers, chemists, and utilized mathematicians.

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Bounds on the Effective Energy Function 37 either case), which is completely analogous to the corresponding result for linear two-phase materials. 2 Approximate Estimates of the Effective Energy Although the above developments were for the effective dielectric constant of nonlinear materials, they are equally applicable to the problem of estimating their nonlinear conductivity. We will discuss this problem in detail later in this chapter, but it is useful to note here the work of Gibiansky and Torquato (1998a).

2. Examples of one- and two-dimensional rough profiles and surfaces generated by the fractional Brownian motion with various Hurst exponents H . d-dimensional fBm is given by S(ω) = ( ad . d 2 H +d/2 i=1 ωi ) (16) where ω = (ω1 , · · · , ωd ) is the Fourier-transform variable, and ad is a d-dependent constant. The spectral representation (16) also allows us to introduce a cutoff length scale co = 1/ωco such that ad S(ω) = . (17) d 2 H +d/2 2 + (ωco i=1 ωi ) The cutoff co allows us to control the length scale over which the spatial properties of a system are correlated (or anticorrelated).

The upper bound for the effective energy function of the linear comparison material may be given in terms of the upper bound for its effective dielectric constant: + e N = i=1 φi 0 + (d − 1) i −1 − (d − 1) + + , (64) where + = supi { i0 }. The procedure that utilizes the lower bound (44) for the linear comparison material to obtain a lower bound for the nonlinear material may now be repeated. To derive the upper estimates, one utilizes (64) instead of (44), in which case the result would be the same as (47) and (48) for the N -phase and two-phase nonlinear materials, respectively, with the difference that the outermost minimum operations must now be replaced by maximum operations.

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