@article {22106,
	title = {Effective Specific Heats of Multi-Phase Thermoelastic Composites},
	journal = {Acta Mechanica Solida Sinica},
	volume = {25},
	number = {3},
	year = {2012},
	note = {979mxTimes Cited:3Cited References Count:19},
	month = {Jun},
	pages = {262-276},
	abstract = {This paper studies the effective properties of multi-phase thermoelastic composites. Based on the Helmholtz free energy and the Gibbs free energy of individual phases, the effective elastic tensor, thermal-expansion tensor, and specific heats of the multi-phase composites are derived by means of the volume average of free-energies of these phases. Particular emphasis is placed on the derivation of new analytical expressions of effective specific heats at constant-strain and constant-stress situations, in which a modified Eshelby{\textquoteright}s micromechanics theory is developed and the interaction between inclusions is considered. As an illustrative example, the analytical expression of the effective specific heat for a three-phase thermoelastic composite is presented.},
	keywords = {composite materials, effective specific heat, energy, free energy, matrix, micromechanics, models, thermoelasticity},
	isbn = {0894-9166},
	author = {Chen, Y. Q. and Huang, R. C. and Huang, Z. P. and Sun, L. Z.}
}
