Microporomechanics encapsulates the study of the micromechanics of porous media. Porosity is the most prominent heterogeneous property of all natural and most engineered composite materials, and is key to the understanding and prediction of macroscopic materials behaviour. As new experimental techniques such as nanoindentation now provide unprecedented access to micromechanical properties and morphologies of materials, it becomes possible to trace these features from the nanoscale to the macroscale of day-to-day engineering applications, and predict transport properties, stiffness, strength and deformation behaviours within a consistent framework of microporomechanics.
* Authored by recognised leading experts in the field of microporomechanics
* Introduces high quality landmark research that proposes a new framework for the description of the behaviour of porous materials
* Composed of a logical and didactic build-up from fundamental concepts to state-of-the-art theory
* Synergises the disparate subject areas of poromechanics and micromechanics
* Includes a variety of original problem sets that provide a hands-on application of the homogenization theories to specific materials configuration
Microporomechanics provides a first introduction to the micromechanics of porous media, and offers an invaluable resource for academic and industrial research scientists and engineers. It will also appeal to graduate students in biomechanics and bioengineering, civil and environmental engineering, geophysics and geomechanics, materials science, and engineering related to petroleum and gas exploration.

Luc Dormieux is a professor at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, specialising in the mechanics of porous environments. In 2002 he edited a special issue of the Journal of Engineering Mechanics, and is about to publish (16/10/2005) a book joint-edited with Franz-Josef Ulm entitled "Applied Micromechanics of Porous Materials", to be part of Springer-Verlag's CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences Series.

Djimedo Kondo is a professor at the Lille University of Science and Technology, specialising in the mechanical reliability of materials and structures & geomechanics. He has authored over 20 journal papers.

Franz-Josef Ulm is an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He specialises in the durability mechanics of engineering materials and structures, computational mechanics, bio-chemo-poromechanics, & high performance composite materials. He sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Engineering Mechanics. He has recently co-authored a book with Luc Dormieux (see above) and co-authored the 2 volume "Mechanics and Durability of Solids" with Olivier Coussy in 2001.

Preface.

Notation.

1. A Mathematical Framework for Upscaling Operations.

1.1 Representative Elementary Volume (rev).

1.2 Averaging Operations.

1.3 Application to Balance Laws.

1.4 The Periodic Cell Assumption.

PART I: MODELING OF TRANSPORT PHENOMENA.

2. Micro(fluid)mechanics of Darcy's Law.

2.1 Darcy's Law.

2.2 Microscopic Derivation of Darcy's law.

2.3 Training Set: Upper and Lower Bounds of the Permeability of a 2-D Microstructure.

2.4 Generalization: Periodic Homogenization Based on Double Scale Expansion.

2.5 Interaction Between Fluid and Solid Phase.

2.6 Beyond Darcy's (Linear) Law.

2.7 Appendix: Convexity of _(d).

3. Micro-to-Macro Diffusive Transport of a Fluid Component.

3.1 Fick's Law.

3.2 Di_usion Without Advection in Steady State Conditions.

3.3 Double Scale Expansion Technique.

3.4 Training Set: Multilayer Porous Medium.

3.5 Concluding Remarks.

PART II: MICROPOROELASTICITY.

4. Drained Microelasticity.

4.1 1-D Thought Model: The Hollow Sphere.

4.2 Generalization.

4.3 Estimates of the Homogenized Elasticity Tensor.

4.4 Average and E_ective Strains in the Solid Phase.

4.5 Training Set: Molecular Di_usion in a Saturated Porous Medium.

5. Linear Microporoelasticity.

5.1 Loading Parameters.

5.2 1-D Thought Model: The Saturated Hollow Sphere Model.

5.3 Generalization.

5.4 Application: Estimates of the Poroelastic Constants and Average Strain Level.

5.5 Levin's Theorem in Linear Microporoelasticity.

5.6 Training Set: The Two-Scale Double-Porosity Material.

6. Eshelby's Problem in Linear Diffusion and Microporoelasticity.

6.1 Eshelby's Problem in Linear Diffusion.

6.2 Eshelby's Problem in Linear Microelasticity.

6.3 Implementation of Eshelby's Solution in Linear Microporoelasticity.

6.4 Instructive exercise: Anisotropy of Poroelastic Properties Induced by Flat Pores.

6.5 Training Set : New estimates of the homogenized diffusion tensor.

6.6 Appendix: Cylindrical Inclusion in an Isotropic Matrix.

PART III: MICROPOROINELASTICITY.

7. Strength Homogenization.

7.1 1-D Thought Model: Strength Limits of the Saturated Hollow Sphere.

7.2 Macroscopic Strength of an Empty Porous Material.

7.3 Von Mises Behavior of the Solid Phase.

7.4 The Role of Pore Pressure on the Macroscopic Strength Criterion.

7.5 Non Linear Microporoelasticity.

8. Non-Saturated Microporoomechanics.

8.1 The E_ect of Surface Tension at the Fluid-Solid Interface.

8.2 Microporoelasticity in Unsaturated Conditions.

8.3 Training Set: Drying Shrinkage in a Cylindrical Pore Material System.

8.4 Strength Domain of Non-Saturated Porous Media.

9. Microporoplasticity.

9.1 1-D Thought Model: The Saturated Hollow Sphere.

9.2 State Equations of Microporoplasticity.

9.3 Macroscopic Plasticity Criterion.

9.4 Dissipation Analysis.

10. Microporofracture and Damage Mechanics.

10.1 Elements of Linear Fracture Mechanics.

10.2 Dilute Estimates of Linear Poroelastic Properties of Cracked Media.

10.3 Mori-Tanaka Estimates of Linear Poroelastic Properties of

Cracked Media.

10.4 Micromechanics of Damage Propagation in Saturated Media.

10.5 Training Set: Damage Propagation in Undrained Conditions.

10.6 Appendix : Algebra for Transverse Isotropy and Applications.

References.

Index.