ABSTRACT
A unit cell of a specified shape under specified loading conditions has been offered earlier as a representative mesoelement for particulate polymeric composites (Moshev & Kozhevnikova 2000). The offered structural unit cell represents an elastomeric cylinder with the height equal to its diameter. A rigid spherical inclusion (filler) is placed at the centre of the cylinder (fig. 1). It is assumed that this element is disposed within a closely packed ensemble. The maximum solid-phase filling of this package reaches 0.64, which coincides with the limiting filling of random structures consisting of identical spherical particles.
