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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES
Volume 45, Issue 7-8, Pages 2160-2172Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2007.11.014
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composite material; fibre-reinforced; permeability; fluid flow; anisotropy; homogenisation
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Biological tissues can be considered as composite materials comprised of a porous matrix filled with interstitial fluid and reinforced by impermeable collagen fibres. Motivated by studies on fluid flow in articular cartilage, we would like to quantify the undeformed configuration permeability of fibre-reinforced composite materials. If there is a sufficient scale separation between the internal structure of the porous matrix and the arrangement of the fibres,. the matrix can be taken as a porous continuum at the fibre scale. In this case, the fibres can be treated as inclusions in a porous continuum, and the overall permeability of the composite can be evaluated using homogenisation procedures. For an isotropic homogeneous matrix, the symmetry of the system is governed by the orientation of the fibres. Here, we propose to retrieve the overall permeability through geometrical considerations and directional averaging methods. The special case of transverse isotropy is discussed in detail, with particular attention to the sub-cases of aligned fibres and fibres lying on a plane. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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