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Continua with Microstructure

By Gianfranco Capriz (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York
Year
1989
ISBN
0387968865, 9780387968865
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4612-3584-2
LCC
QA808.2 .C33 1989
Open Library ID
OL2032758M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
619 kB (634018 bytes)
Series
Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy 35
Edition
1
Pages
93\104
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Scanned
yes
Time added
2009-12-04 00:34:26
Mathematical and Computational PhysicsTheoretical

Description

This book proposes a new general setting for theories of bodies with microstructure when they are described within the scheme of the con­ tinuum: besides the usual fields of classical thermomechanics (dis­ placement, stress, temperature, etc.) some new fields enter the picture (order parameters, microstress, etc.). The book can be used in a semester course for students who have already followed lectures on the classical theory of continua and is intended as an introduction to special topics: materials with voids, liquid crystals, meromorphic con­ tinua. In fact, the content is essentially that of a series of lectures given in 1986 at the Scuola Estiva di Fisica Matematica in Ravello (Italy). I would like to thank the Scientific Committee of the Gruppo di Fisica Matematica of the Italian National Council of Research (CNR) for the invitation to teach in the School. I also thank the Committee for Mathematics of CNR and the National Science Foundation: they have supported my research over many years and given me the opportunity to study the topics presented in this book, in particular through a USA-Italy program initiated by Professor Clifford A. Truesdell. My interest in the field dates back to a period of collaboration with Paolo Podio-Guidugli and some of the basic ideas came up during our discussions.

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