Nonlinear elastic Landau coefficients in heterogeneous materials

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Published 9 September 2008 Europhysics Letters Association
, , Citation S. Giordano et al 2008 EPL 83 66003 DOI 10.1209/0295-5075/83/66003

0295-5075/83/6/66003

Abstract

We prove that the elastic fields within a generic nonlinear and anisotropic inhomogeneity embedded in a (linear and anisotropic) matrix are uniform. We apply this general result to the specific case of a dispersion of isotropic nonlinear spheres and we obtain a universal mixing scheme for the Landau coefficients. This scheme describes a complex scenario frequently found in material physics problems, where possible strong amplifications of the nonlinearities may arise in some given conditions.

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10.1209/0295-5075/83/66003