Dilute, Self-Consistent (SC), Mori–Tanaka (MT) and differential micromechanics methods are developed for microcrack-weakened thermopiezoelectric solids. These methods are capable of determination of effective properties such as the conductivity, electroelastic moduli, thermal expansion and pyroelectric coefficients. The above material constants affected by the microcracks are derived by way of ...

It is well known that the mechanical properties of fiberglass reinforced "phenolic moulding compounds" are significantly enhanced if the glass particles are coated with silane coupling agents before compounding. It has been shown that improvements obtained by using scanning electron microscopy techniques are due to better bonding of phenolic resin to the surface of treated glass fibers. These o...

Composite materials play an increasingly important role in our everyday life and technology from skis and golf clubs to sensors and actuators in high tech components. By “composite” we mean a perfectly bonded homogeneous mixture of two or more materials on a length scale much smaller than human size and much larger than interatomic distances. The physical properties of a composite (conducting, ...