Second-Order Homogenization of Particulate Elastomeric Composites for Structural-Scale Damage Analysis
Abstract
Damage prediction in particulate elastomeric composites is challenging due to the strong material heterogeneity, nearly incompressible behavior of the matrix, and the presence of localized stress concentrations arising from matrix-inclusion interactions. In the present work, a computational framework is developed for damage propagation analysis of particulate elastomeric composite structures. The effective constitutive response of the heterogeneous material is first determined using the second-order homogenization method. The resulting homogenized response is subsequently used to identify equivalent hyperelastic material parameters for structural simulations. A three-parameter isotropic damage model is incorporated to capture damage-induced softening. A mixed displacement-pressure finite element formulation, is used to alleviate volumetric locking associated with nearly incompressible property of elastomers. The proposed framework is validated through full-scale simulations and homogenized response involving composites with varying inclusion volume fractions. Numerical investigations demonstrate that the homogenized models is able to reproduce the global force-displacement response within 2% error and damage evolution characteristics of the heterogeneous composites while significantly reducing the computational cost.
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BibTeX
@misc{pabbu2026secondorder,
title = {{Second-Order Homogenization of Particulate Elastomeric Composites for Structural-Scale Damage Analysis}},
author = {Krishna Murthy Pabbu and Tarkes Dora Pallicity and Nelson Muthu},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.20624},
eprint = {2610.20624},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20624},
note = {CC BY-SA 4.0},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Second-Order Homogenization of Particulate Elastomeric Composites for Structural-Scale Damage Analysis
AU - Krishna Murthy Pabbu
AU - Tarkes Dora Pallicity
AU - Nelson Muthu
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.20624
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.20624
AB - Damage prediction in particulate elastomeric composites is challenging due to the strong material heterogeneity, nearly incompressible behavior of the matrix, and the presence of localized stress concentrations arising from matrix-inclusion interactions. In the present work, a computational framework is developed for damage propagation analysis of particulate elastomeric composite structures. The effective constitutive response of the heterogeneous material is first determined using the second-order homogenization method. The resulting homogenized response is subsequently used to identify equivalent hyperelastic material parameters for structural simulations. A three-parameter isotropic damage model is incorporated to capture damage-induced softening. A mixed displacement-pressure finite element formulation, is used to alleviate volumetric locking associated with nearly incompressible property of elastomers. The proposed framework is validated through full-scale simulations and homogenized response involving composites with varying inclusion volume fractions. Numerical investigations demonstrate that the homogenized models is able to reproduce the global force-displacement response within 2% error and damage evolution characteristics of the heterogeneous composites while significantly reducing the computational cost.
ER -