Abstract: This paper addresses a problem of finding the effective medium that exhibits the same overall response as a given composite material reinfored by unidirectional short-fibers (chopped fibers). The ...

Abstract: This paper examines upper and lower bounds of the effective elastic modulus of unidirectional short-fiber composites. The short-fibers are modeled by aligned ellipsoidal inclusions of the same ...

Abstract: To minimize surgical stresses including blood loss and operation time to the patients during hepatic resection, we studied the feasibility of a combination of a partial liver freezing technique ...