Justification of an effective field method in elasto-statics of heterogeneous solids

摘要

A heuristic scheme for predicting the overall properties of composite media has been pro- posed, explored and widely used in the last 25 years by Kanaun and Levin. The numerous results and technical details are collected in the impressive volume Kanaun and Levin (Petroza- vodsk: Izdatel'stvo Petrozavodskogo Universiteta, 1993 (in Russian)). The method is based on a certain old, natural and appealing physical reasoning, which well explains its name effective field method (EFM). The predictions of the methods agree very well with many experimental data.