Cioranescu, Doina; Saint Jean Paulin, Jeannine Homogenization of reticulated structures. (English) Zbl 0929.35002 Applied Mathematical Sciences. 136. New York, NY: Springer. xx, 346 p. (1999). Development of the homogenization theory of lattice-type structures began in early 80th in papers by G. P. Panasenko; many examples and applications were presented in the monograph by [N. S. Bakhvalov and G. P. Panasenko, Averaging processes in periodic media, Nauka, Moskva (1984; Zbl 0607.73009) (Russian) and Kluwer, Dordrecht (1998; Zbl 0692.73012)]. D. Cioronescu and J. Saint Jean Paulin began in 1986 the investigation of the same structures with a different approach. Their results (as well as results of other authors) are collected in this interesting and from the point of view of applications important book, with a comprehensive and unified presentation.The book consists of six chapters. In Chapter 1 an introduction to homogenization of perforated media, including multi-scale and Tartar’s method is given. In Chapter 2 reticulated structures, gridworks (networks), tall, honeycomb and reinforced structures are considered. All these cases are characterized by a small thickness of the material. Because of that fact it is possible to find out the homogenized coefficients explicitly. The authors developed a general method for the treatment of structures with very complicated geometry. Chapter 3 deals with thermal problem for gridworks, consisting of regular arrays of thin wires. Here periodicity occurs only in two dimensions and the third dimension appears as a new small parameter. In Chapter 4 the linear elasticity problem for the same structure is considered; these are previously unpublished topics. In Chapter 5 and Chapter 6 the thermal and elasticity problem, respectively, for thin tall structures is treated; in this case the thickness of the structure is a new parameter.As the authors pointed out in the Preface, the book is written from the point of view of applied mathematicians, attention being paid to the mathematical rigour, convergence results and error estimates. Reviewer: Ibrahim Aganović (Zagreb) Cited in 154 Documents MSC: 35-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to partial differential equations 35B27 Homogenization in context of PDEs; PDEs in media with periodic structure 74Qxx Homogenization, determination of effective properties in solid mechanics 35B25 Singular perturbations in context of PDEs 74A35 Polar materials Keywords:perforated media; reticulated structures; convergence results; error estimates Citations:Zbl 0607.73009; Zbl 0692.73012 PDFBibTeX XMLCite \textit{D. Cioranescu} and \textit{J. Saint Jean Paulin}, Homogenization of reticulated structures. New York, NY: Springer (1999; Zbl 0929.35002)