Tensor-Valued Random Fields for Continuum Physics

ISBN: 9781108567800 出版年：2018 页码：314 Anatoliy Malyarenko Cambridge University Press

This article reports progress on homogeneous isotropic tensor random fields (TRFs) for continuum mechanics. The basic thrust is on determining most general representations of the correlation functions as well as their spectral expansions. Once this is accomplished, the second step is finding the restrictions dictated by a particular physical application. Thus, in the case of fields of material properties (like conductivity and stiffness), the restriction resides in the positive-definiteness, whereby a connection to experiments and/or computational micromechanics can be established. On the other hand, in the case of fields of dependent properties (e.g., stress, strain and displacement), restrictions are due to the respective field equations.