Discovering accurate relations between microstructure
and elastic properties of porous/microcracked solids
always was a challenging task in material science.
In the book these relations are investigated on an
example of sintered hydroxyapatite and Fontainebleau
sandstone. It is shown that isolated pores of
irregular shapes may be approximated, with good
accuracy, by the spheroidal ones. Several commonly
used approximate schemes are applied to predict
effective Youngs and shear moduli of a material with
spheroidal pores. The microstructural information
(average shapes of pores) required for...