On Inclusion-Matrix Interfacial Stresses in Composites Containing Phase-Transforming Phases

Journal Article · Fri May 21 04:00:00 EDT 2010 · AIP Conference Proceedings

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3452224· OSTI ID:21361977

Wang, Y -C; Ko, C -C ^[1]

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1. Department of Civil Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, 1 University Road, Tainan, Taiwan, 70101 (China)

Recent development in composites containing phase-transforming particles, such as vanadium dioxide or barium titanate, reveals the overall stiffness and viscoelastic damping of the composites may be unbounded. Negative stiffness is induced from phase transformation predicted by the Landau phase transformation theory. Although this unbounded phenomenon is theoretically supported with the composite homogenization theory, detailed stress analyses of the composites are still lacking. In this work, we analyze the two-dimensional plane stress elasticity problem of a square plate containing a circular inclusion, under the assumption that the Young's modulus of the inclusion is negative. Assumption of negative stiffness is a priori in the present analysis. A static loading condition is adopted to estimate the effective modulus of the composites by the ratio of applied stress to averaged strain on the loading edges. It is found that the interfacial stresses between the circular inclusion and matrix increase dramatically when the negative stiffness is so tuned that overall stiffness is unbounded. Furthermore, it is found that stress distributions in the inclusion are not uniform, contrary to Eshelby's theorem, which states, for two-phase, infinite composites, the inclusion's stress distribution is uniform when the shape of the inclusion has higher symmetry than an ellipse. The rationale for this nonuniform stress distributions is due to nonlocal effects induced from negative stiffness.

• OSTI ID: 21361977
• Journal Information: AIP Conference Proceedings, Journal Name: AIP Conference Proceedings Journal Issue: 1 Vol. 1233; ISSN APCPCS; ISSN 0094-243X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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ALKALINE EARTH METAL COMPOUNDS
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ELASTICITY
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MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PHASE TRANSFORMATIONS
STATIC LOADS
STRESS ANALYSIS
STRESSES
TITANATES
TITANIUM COMPOUNDS
TRANSITION ELEMENT COMPOUNDS
TWO-DIMENSIONAL CALCULATIONS
VANADIUM COMPOUNDS
VANADIUM OXIDES
YOUNG MODULUS