Abstract: The presence of small amounts of residual void space (on the order of one percent by volume) is sufficient to make estimates of composite elastic constants (obtained while ignoring this porosity) ...

Abstract: Linear equations of motion are derived to describe the behavior of small disturbances in a porous solid containing both liquid and gas. Appropriate boundary conditions are derived to guarantee ...

Abstract: For elastic materials containing fluid-saturated porosity, the pore compressibility is a measure of the deformation of a unit pore volume in response to a change in fluid pressure. Rather than ...

Abstract: We develop an effective medium theory of the nonlinear elasticity of a random sphere pack based upon the underlying Hertz-Mindlin theory of grain-grain contacts. We compare our predictions for ...