| Continua with Microstructure Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Capriz, Gianfranco (Author) |
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ISBN: 1461281660 ISBN-13: 9781461281665 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Physics - Mathematical & Computational |
| Dewey: 530.1 |
| Series: Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 0.22" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.36 lbs) 93 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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. |