Conclusions
The transformation field analysis is a general method for solving inelastic deformation and other incremental problems in heterogeneous media with many interacting inhomogeneities. The various unit cell models, or the corrected inelastic self-consistent or Mori-Tanaka fomulations, the so-called Eshelby method, and the Eshelby tensor itself are all seen as special cases of this more general approach. The method easily accommodates any uniform overall loading path, inelastic constitutive equation and micromechanical model. The model geometries are incorporated through the mechanical transformation influence functions or concentration factor tensors which are derived from elastic solutions for the chosen model and phase elastic moduli. Thus, there is no need to solve inelastic boundary value or inclusion problems, indeed such solutions are typically associated with erroneous procedures that violate (62); this was discussed by Dvorak (1992). In comparison with the finite element method in unit cell model solutions, the present method is more efficient for cruder mesches. Moreover, there is no need to implement inelastic constitutive equations into a finite element program. An addition to the examples shown herein, the method can be applied to many other problems, such as those arising in active materials with eigenstrains induced by components made of shape memory alloys or other actuators. Progress has also been made in applications to electroelastic composites, and to problems involving damage development in multiphase solids. Finally, there is no conceptural obstacle to extending the approach beyond the analysis of representative volumes of composite materials, to arbitrarily loaded structures.
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Communicated by S. N. Atluri, 4 September 1993
This work was supported by the Air Force Office of Scienctific Research, and by the Office of Naval Research
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Dvorak, G.J., Wafa, A.M. & Bahei-El-Din, Y.A. Implementation of the transformation field analysis for inelastic composite materials. Computational Mechanics 14, 201–228 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00370073
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