Effect of Element Size in Random Finite Element Analysis for Effective Young’s Modulus

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<div>Normalized discrepancies for layered cases (ELA + SExp).</div>

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Figure 5: Effect of Element Size in Random Finite Element Analysis for Effective Young’s Modulus 