Co-Authors:
Rosen, B.W., Department of Materials Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Hashin, Z., Department of Materials Engineering, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Abstract:
The relationship between the effective thermoelastic properties of composites and those of their constituents is studied. Bounds are derived for the effective thermal expansion coefficients and specific heats of multiphase anisotropic composites having anisotropic constituents. For two phase composites, these bounds coincide to yield unique relations between effective expansion coefficients and effective elastic moduli. These resulting expressions agree with those obtained by a direct method for two-phase composites. © 1970.