A Simple Explicit Formula for the Voigt-Reuss-Hill Average of Elastic Polycrystals with Arbitrary Crystal and Texture Symmetries

Abstract

The Voigt-Reuss-Hill (VRH) average provides a simple way to estimate the elastic constants of a textured polycrystal in terms of its crystallographic texture and the elastic constants of the constituting crystallites. Empirically the VRH estimates were found in most cases to have an accuracy comparable to those obtained by more sophisticated techniques such as self-consistent schemes. In this paper we determine, in the space of fourth-order tensors with major and minor symmetries, a special set of irreducible basis tensors, with which we obtain a simple explicit formula for the VRH average for elastic polycrystals with arbitrary crystal and texture symmetries. Our formula is correct to first order in the texture coefficients.

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