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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF MECHANICS A-SOLIDS 28, 6 (2009) 1051-1063
Bounds for the effective properties of heterogeneous plates
T. K. Nguyen 1, K. Sab 1, G. Bonnet 2
(06/05/2009)

This paper presents new bounds for heterogeneous plates which are similar to the well-known Hashin-Shtrikman bounds, but take into account plate boundary conditions. The Hashin-Shtrikman variational principle is used with a self-adjoint Green-operator with traction-free boundary conditions proposed by the authors. This variational formulation enables to derive lower and upper bounds for the effective in-plane and out-of-plane elastic properties of the plate. Two applications of the general theory are considered: first, in-plane invariant polarization fields are used to recover the "first-order" bounds proposed by Kolpakov [Kolpakov, A.G.,1999. Variational principles for stiffnesses of a non-homogeneous plate. J. Meth. Phys. Solids 47,2075-2092] for general heterogeneous plates; next, "second-order bounds" for n-phase plates whose constituents are statistically homogeneous in the in-plane directions are obtained The results related to a two-phase material made of elastic isotropic materials are shown. The "second-order" bounds for the plate elastic properties are compared with the plate properties of homogeneous plates made of materials having an elasticity tensor computed from "second-order" Hashin-Shtrikman bounds in an infinite domain.
1 :  Laboratoire Navier
Ecole des Ponts ParisTech – CNRS : UMR8205 – IFSTTAR
2 :  Laboratoire de Modélisation et Simulation Multi Echelle (MSME)
Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (UPEMLV) – Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne (UPEC) – CNRS : UMR8208
Matériaux et Structures Architecturés (MSA)
Sciences de l'ingénieur/Mécanique/Mécanique des solides

Physique/Mécanique/Mécanique des solides
NONLOCAL CONSTITUTIVE-EQUATIONS – GRADED COMPOSITE-MATERIALS – VOLUME ELEMENT SIZE – VARIATIONAL-PRINCIPLES – MICROMECHANICAL MODELS – MULTILAYERED PLATES – ELASTIC BEHAVIOUR – NUMERICAL-METHOD – LIMIT ANALYSIS – RANDOM-MEDIA