A physically meaningful homogenization approach to determine equivalent elastic properties of layered soil

A simple, yet physically meaningful, homogenization approach to determine the “equivalent” elastic properties for a layered medium is proposed. The proposed approach makes use of the Reuss and Voigt approximations without employing auxiliary stresses and strains related to the different elastic properties of the material layers. When assuming that the constituent materials are isotropic, some special features of the equivalent homogeneous …