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In heterogeneous materials, physical fields—stresses, strains, temperature—are variable at microscale. The effective properties interrelate volume averages of these fields. In the context of the elastic properties, this means relations between average stresses and average strains; in the context of thermal conductivity—relations between average temperature gradient and average heat flux; similar definitions apply to other physical properties.
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Kachanov, M., Sevostianov, I. (2018). Quantitative Characterization of Microstructures in the Context of Effective Properties. In: Micromechanics of Materials, with Applications. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 249. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76204-3_2
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