Micromechanical Background of Random Structure Thermoperistatic Composites

Abstract

In contrast to the classical local and nonlocal theories, the peridynamic equation of motion introduced by Silling (J. Mech. Phys. Solids 2000; 48: 175–209) is free of any spatial derivatives of displacement. The new general integral equations (GIE) connecting the displacement fields in the point being considered and the surrounding points of random structure composite materials (CMs) is proposed. For statistically homogemneous thermoperistatic media subjected to homogeneous volumetric boundary loading, one proved that the effective behaviour of this media is governing by conventional effective constitutive equation which is intrinsic to the local thermoelasticity theory. It was made by the most exploitation of the popular tools and concepts used in conventional thermoelasticity of CMs and adapted to thermoperistatics. The general results establishing the links between the effective properties (effective elastic moduli, effective thermal expansion) and the corresponding mechanical and transformation influence functions are obtained by the use of decomposition of local fields into the load and residual fields similarly to the locally elastic CMs. This similarity opens a way for straightforward expansion of analytical micromechanics tools for locally elastic CMs to the new area of random structure peridynamic CMs. Detailed numerical examples for 1D case are considered.