Abstract: This paper deals with the dissipation associated with quasistatic microcracking of brittle materials exhibiting softening behavior. For this purpose an elastodamaging cohesive zone model is used, ...

Abstract: The present paper aims at studying the effect of microcracks opening on the diffusion and advection processes in a saturated porous medium. It is based on a micromechanical homogenization approach. The effects of porosity ...

Abstract: Many research activities have contributed to extend the homogenization schemes and variational bounds to account for surface stresses, in the case of matrix-inclusion composite materials. The nanostructure of clay-based ...

Abstract: Highly filled composite material systems exhibit, in triaxial compression, a composite strength that is greater than either the weaker particulate or matrix strength. This is due to an amplification of the local confinement ...

Abstract: Gypsum is made up of interlocked and elongated crystals. The random nature of its morphology suggests to resort to homogenization of random media to investigate its mechanical properties from the scale of the single crystals ...