The subject yields basic information about heterogeneous materials like rocks, construction materials (concretes) or composite materials. It helps to create a concept of behaviour and properties of mentioned materials (mechanical, thermal, electrical) and ways of such materials disintegration in dependence on their components including pores. The subjects submits information about methods of study of heterogeneous materials under common conditions and in extreme pressures and temperatures.
Literature
Jaeger, J. C., Cook N. G. V., Zimmerman R. W.: Fundamentals of rock mechanics, Malden, Blackwell 2007
Jaeger, J. C.: Physical and mechanical properties of rock, Cambridge university Press, online publication August 2010
Advised literature
Bruce, D. W.: Porous materials, John Wiley & Sons, 2010
Ravichandran, K. S.: Elastic properties of 2-phase composites. Journal of the American ceramic society, Vol. 77, p. 1178-1184, 1994
Ji, S. C., Wang, Q., Xia, B., Marcotte, D.: Mechanical properties of multiphase materials and rocks: a a phenomenological approach using generalized means. Journal of structural geology, vol 26, p. 1377-1390
Ko, K. C., Haas, C. J.: Effective modulus of rock as a composite material. International journal of rock mechanics and mining science, vol. 9 p. 531- 541, 1972