Novel approach for measuring the effective shear modulus of porous materials

A new approach is proposed for the experimental study of the effective shear modulus of porous elastic materials using the uniaxial tension test. The idea is to measure strains at a few points surrounding a cluster of holes that represents the structure of the material. The representative cluster is placed in the material with the same elastic properties as those of the matrix. The measured strains lead to the properties of the equivalent...