“…Mathematical homogenization (Babuska, 1976a,b;Bensoussan et al, 1978;Sanchez-Palencia, 1978;Francfort, 1983;Francfort & Murat, 1986;Allaire, 1992;Murat & Tartar, 1997;Milton, 2002), combined with numerical simulation, finite element or finite volume methods (see for instance Zhigang et al, 2010;Gelebart, 2011;Lee & Yu, 2011;Nackenhorst et al, 2011;Pindera et al, 2012;Birman et al, 2013;Balokhonov et al, 2014;Katz et al, 2015;? ;Tu & Pindera, 2014;Freund et al, 2014) remain a rigorous theory for describing heterogeneous materials and structures in engineering applications.…”