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Exact estimates of the conductivity of a binary mixture of isotropic materials*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2011

K. A. Lurie
Affiliation:
Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. A. F. Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Leningrad, U.S.S.R
A. V. Cherkaev
Affiliation:
Academy of Sciences of the U.S.S.R. A. F. Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, Leningrad, U.S.S.R Visiting the Department of Solid Mechanics, the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark in March 1985

Synopsis

This paper describes the set GmU of effective conductivity tensors of mixtures generated by two isotropic materials taken in prescribed proportions m1 and m2 We describe microstructures which realise any point of GmU for n-dimensional space.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1986

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