Micromechanics and Inhomogeneity

An Inverse Problem in Nondestructive Inspection of a Crack in a Plate with an Inhomogeneity by Means of the Electrical Potential Method.- The Effective Thermoelastic Properties of Whisker-Reinforced Composites as Functions of Material-Forming Parameters.- On the Specific Damaging Effects of Surface and Near-Surface Inclusions.- On a Correspondence Between Mechanical and Thermal Effects in Two-Phase Composites.- On Atomic Spacing in Large Regular Cubic Lattices.- Crack Tip Toughening by Inclusions with Pairs of Shear Transformations.- Boundary Conditions at Interfaces.- On Viscoplasticity and Continuum Dislocation Theory.- A Circular Inclusion with Slipping Interface in Plane Elastostatics.- Mechanical Properties of Cracked Solids: Validity of the Self-Consistent Method.- The Elastic and Diffusional Interaction of Spherical Inhomogeneities in a Uniaxial Stress Field.- Analysis of Cracks in Transversely Isotropic Media.- Modified Green Functions in the Theory of Heterogeneous and/or Anisotropic Linearly Elastic Media.- Inclusion With and Without Free Surfaces in a Plane Strain.- Interaction of Slip Bands in High-Cycle Fatigue Crack Initiation.- Elastic Behavior of Laminated Flexible Composites Under Finite Deformation.- On the Basic Components of the Interaction Energy Between Two Infinitesimal Circular Defects in an Isotropic Elastic Body.- Successive Iteration Method in the Evaluation of Average Fields in Elastically Inhomogeneous Materials.- Effects of Nonmetallic Inclusions on the Fatigue Strength of Metals.- Elastic Solids with Microdefects.- The Effective Moduli of Layered Media—A New Look at an Old Problem.- Thermomechanical Hysteresis and Analogous Behavior of Composites.- The Effect of Voids and Inclusions on Wave Propagation in Granular Materials.- Crack, Dislocation Free Zone, and Dislocation Pile-Up Model for the Behavior of the Hall—Petch Relation in the Range of Ultrafine Grain Sizes.- The Elastic Fields Produced by an Infinitesimal Dislocation Loop, an Interstitial Atom, and a Vacancy Moving with Uniform Velocity.- Energy Consideration on a Branched and Curved Crack Extension.- Elastic/Plastic Indentation Hardness of Ceramics: The Dislocation Punching Model.- Some Thoughts on Inhomogeneous Distribution of Fillers in Composites.- The Eigenvectors of the S Matrix and Their Relations with Line Dislocations and Forces in Anisotropic Elastic Solids.- On the Strain Energy of Transformation Inhomogeneities in Solids.- The Hemispherical Inhomogeneity Subjected to a Concentrated Force.- Dislocation Inhomogeneity in Cyclic Deformation.- Equivalence of Green’s Function and the Fourier Series Representation of Composites with Periodic Microstructure.- Polarization, Virtual Mass, and Analogous Elastic Properties.- Edge Crack Solution Through Use of Dislocation Shielding/Antishielding.- Variational Estimates for the Overall Behavior of a Nonlinear Matrix—Inclusion Composite.- Theory of Plasticity for a Class of Inclusion and Fiber-Reinforced Composites.- Author Index.