Browsing by Subject "representative volume element (RVE)"

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Ocena właściwości makroskopowych geokompozytów na podstawie obrazu ich mikrostruktury
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2011) Łydżba, Dariusz; Różański, Adrian
The paper proposes and discusses the procedure of evaluation of overall properties of geocomposites based on a digital image of their microstructure. The overall property of composite is defined as an expectation of an associated microscopic variable called as a structural function. Mathematically, expectation is an average over all the possible realization of random medium, i.e. the infinite number of realizations. The paper formulates an original method of overall properties evaluation using the so-called 2-point probability function. The procedure proposed involves the notion of a sample and that of Representative Volume Element (RVE). The expectation is evaluated as an average over the sample. The sample is defined to be a set of a finite number of RVE elements, each of them of the same size. Proper evaluation of the expectation requires, within this method, an estimation of the appropriate size of the sample and the RVE element. The size of RVE element is proposed to be determined based on the 2-point probability function and the Monte Carlo simulation whereas the sample size is estimated based on the Central Limit Theorem.
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Uwagi o wielkości reprezentatywnej elementarnej objętości dla losowych mikrostruktur komórkowych
(Wydawnictwa AGH, 2009) Różański, Adrian; Łydżba, Dariusz
The aim of this work is to propose a more quantitative definition of representative volume element (RVE), i.e. by defining both the size of the sample and the sufficient number of realizations. The methodology is applied to a specific random microstructure, namely two-phase two-dimensional square lattice model. It is shown that the geometrical property, namely volume fraction, can be determined either for large samples and a small number of realizations a smaller volumes can be utilised providing that a sufficient number of realizations are considered. It is proved analytically that in case of transport properties there exist some threshold value of the size of RVE below which the results do not converge towards effective properties. This size of the sample is determined by making use of the properties of the two-point probability function.