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Effective Medium Theory of the Porosity Dependence of Bulk Moduli

Published

Author(s)

R G. Munro

Abstract

Effective medium theory is used to obtain a closed form expression for the porosity dependence of the bulk moduli of ceramics. The theory is illustrated with an application to data for high purity alumina that spans a volume fraction of porosity ranging from 0.5 % to 90 %.
Citation
Journal of the American Ceramic Society
Volume
84
Issue
No. 5
Pub Type
Journals

Keywords

alumina, bulk modulus, ceramics, elastic modulus, porosity
Biomaterials and Ceramics

Citation

Munro, R. (2001), Effective Medium Theory of the Porosity Dependence of Bulk Moduli, Journal of the American Ceramic Society (Accessed October 16, 2025)

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Created May 1, 2001, Updated February 19, 2017
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