“…The problem of relating micro and macro elastic stress and strain fields has been treated by Voigt (1887), Reuss (1929), Hill (1952), Eshelby (1957Eshelby ( , 1959, Krö ner (1958Krö ner ( , 1977, Hashin & Shtrikman (1963), Kneer (1964Kneer ( , 1965, Morris (1969Morris ( , 1970Morris ( , 1971, Hirsekorn (1990), Humbert et al (1991), Shermergor et al (1991), Kiewel & Fritsche (1994), Park et al (1995), Kiewel et al (1995Kiewel et al ( , 1996 and Mityushov et al (2002). Eshelby (1957Eshelby ( , 1959 used an ingenious sequence of hypothetical cutting, straining and rejoining operations to calculate the elastic properties of an isotropic matrix, containing a dispersion of ellipsoidal shaped isotropic inclusions having elastic properties different from those of the matrix.…”