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A. Rasool, H. J. Böhm:
"Thermomechanical Behavior of Composites Reinforced by Spherical and Non-Spherical Particles";
Talk: 20th International Workshop on Computational Mechanics of Materials (IWCMM 20), Loughborough, UK; 2010-09-08 - 2010-09-10.

The present work uses the unit cell method for the determination of the effective thermo-elastic properties of particle reinforced composites. The geometries of the unit cells are generated by an in-house C++ code which can provide periodic arrangements of randomly distributed particles of regular polyhedral shapes, such as
cubes, octahedra and tetrahedra. The resulting geometries are then analysed by a Finite Element code. The dependence of macroscopic thermoelastic properties, namely, the Young´s modulus, E,
Poisson number, bulk modulus, K, shear modulus, G and the coefficient of thermal expansion of the composite on the shapes and the
volume fraction of its constituents is studied.

Project Head Helmut J. Böhm:
Generierung von Partikelanordnungen für mikromechanische Modellierungen