An excursion into representative volume elements and unit cells

The objective of this chapter is to provide a comprehensive and systematic account on the subject of representative volume elements (RVEs) and unit cells (UCs). To construct an RVE or UC, intuition has been often perceived sufficient to facilitate the analysis, but down to the details, approaches ta...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Li, Shuguang, Sitnikova, Elena
Format: Book Section
Published: Elsevier 2017
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43594/