Abstract

This Note presents a new approximate scheme for nonlinear composites. The approximation which is made preserves certain features of the original second-order scheme of Ponte Castañeda, exactness to second-order in the contrast and existence of an effective energy, but improves on one drawback, which is the gap between the strain-energy formulation and the affine formulation. A numerical example shows the accuracy of the present method. To cite this article: N. Lahellec, P. Suquet, C. R. Mecanique 332 (2004).

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