%0 Journal Article %A Ghanem, Roger %A Soize, Christian %D 2015 %I Begell House %K heterogeneous material, finite deformations, stochastic material properties, random media, random elasticity field, multiscale %N 4 %P 367-374 %R 10.1615/IntJMultCompEng.2015013959 %T REMARKS ON STOCHASTIC PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS THROUGH FINITE DEFORMATIONS %U https://www.dl.begellhouse.com/journals/61fd1b191cf7e96f,32d4c3584dd9b192,6bea707d7cf769e9.html %V 13 %X Some remarks are provided concerning the effects of geometrical transformations, such as those encountered in a manufacturing process, on the stochastic character of corresponding material properties. It is shown that, in general, even second-order statistical properties are transformed in a nontrivial manner as the material undergoes arbitrary transformation. %8 2015-08-28