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Microcontinuum Field Theories

By A. Cemal Eringen

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
1999
ISBN
0387986200, 9780387986203, 0387989692
LCC
QC173.7 .E75 1999
Open Library ID
OL369874M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
4 MB (4182810 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
172\172
Topic
Physics
Library
Techlib
Time added
2009-11-09 02:42:13

Description

Microcontinuum field theories constitute an extension of classical field theories --- of elastic solids, viscous fluids, electromagnetism, and the like --- to microscopic length and time scales. Material bodies are viewed as collections of a large number of deformable particles (sub-continua), suitable for modeling blood, porous media, polymers, liquid crystals, slurries, and composite materials. This volume is concerned with the fundamentals and the dynamics of microcontinua. It presents a thorough discussion of the kinematics of microcontinua, strain, stress tensors, balance laws, thermodynamics, and constitutive equations for solids and fluids subject to electromagnetic fields and mechanical loads. The discussion includes boundary- and initial-value problems and presents variational and uniqueness theorems. Solutions are given for many applied problems involving micropolar, microstretch and micromorphic bodies, and electromagnetic solids.

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