Periodic boundary conditions (PBC) are commonly used in simulating mechanical behaviour of periodic representative volume elements of heterogeneous materials, such as composites, polycrystals, and foams. This article explores the concept of PBC and it's implementation in ABAQUS.

Metals are composed of anisotropic grains that develop preferred orientations (textures) during processing, leading to anisotropy in their macroscopic properties. This article explores mean-field homogenization methods for estimating effective elastic properties and presents an open-source MATLAB script for analyzing anisotropy in deformation textures.

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