Series on Advances in Mathematics for Applied Sciences - Vol. 55
MESOMECHANICAL CONSTITUTIVE MODELING
by V Kafka (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)
This monograph presents an original concept of constitutive modeling of a wide variety of materials that are microscopically heterogeneous and macroscopically homogeneous. From one point of view it is a generalization of the fictitious classical 'series' and 'parallel' models; the author's model covers as special cases real structures of two-phase materials with inclusions in a matrix, or with both substructures being continuous or discontinuous. From another point of view it is a special case of a model with tensorial internal variables. Concrete structures are characterized by specific structural parameters that can be determined by simple macroscopic tests. Examples of applications to plasticity, reology, shape memory and continuum damage, as well as to metallic polycrystalline materials and concrete and fiber-reinforced materials, are demonstrated.
Contents:
- General Mesomechanical Model of Heterogeneous, Statistically
Homogeneous Materials
- Models of Materials with Statistically Isotropic Structure
- Plasticity of Polycrystalline Metals
- Time-Dependent Deformation
- Fracturing
- Shape Memory
- Transversely Isotropic Materials.
Errata
Readership: Researchers in the mechanics of materials, mechanical engineering,
civil engineering and applied mathematics.
"This carefully written book, based to a large degree on original and new research, is an essential source of information for anyone dealing with property modeling aspects in modern materials science. It can be warmly recommended for graduate students and researchers in the respective fields."
| 240pp |
Pub. date: Jan 2001 |
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