Yogesh Bansal

			Micromechanical modeling of heterogeneous materials continues to play a substantial role in the development of new material systems. It enables the identification and selection of candidate composite materials for given applications, the development of engineered materials with desired thermo-mechanical and physical properties, and the design/optimization of composite structural components in a multiscale analysis setting. This, in turn, facilitates understanding of how local properties of constituent phases and their arrangement influence the macroscopic structural behavior. In order to accomplish these tasks accurately and efficiently, a micromechanics model should be accurate at both macro and micro levels; it should be able to handle multiphase materials with complex microstructures and arbitrary inelastic constitutive response at the phase level; and it should be computationally efficient and relatively easy to implement. Equally importantly, the product of a micromechanics model's construction should be closed-form macroscopic constitutive equations valid under multi-axial loading for use in a stand-alone manner or as a subroutine in a multiscale material/structural analysis or optimization algorithm. A micromechanics model possessing all of the above features could arguably be called an ideal model.
	Structural Analyst, Aerospace Everett, WA, USA E-mail: ycb7d@virginia.edu		Finite Volume Direct Averaging Micromechanics (FVDAM) Model Micromechanics Analysis Tool (MATOOL) - GUI for FVDAM Model

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