Non-linearity and breakdown in soft condensed matter : proceedings of a workshop held at Calcutta, India, 1-9 December 1993 /
There have been considerable advances in recent times in understanding many common material processes that are of practical importance, such as nonlinear response, fracture, breakdown, earthquakes, packing, and granular flow, that are of immense practical importance. This has been mainly due to new...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; New York :
Springer-Verlag,
[1994]
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| Series: | Lecture notes in physics ;
437. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | There have been considerable advances in recent times in understanding many common material processes that are of practical importance, such as nonlinear response, fracture, breakdown, earthquakes, packing, and granular flow, that are of immense practical importance. This has been mainly due to new applications of statistical physics, including percolation theory, fractal concepts and self-organized criticality. This collection of articles brings together research in those closely allied fields. It deals with problems in material science involving random geometries and nonlinearity at a mesoscopic scale, where local disorder and nonlinearity influence the global behaviour of cracks, for example, and problems where randomness in time evolution is as crucial as the geometry itself. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (340 pages) : illustrations. |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9783540490371 (electronic bk.) 354049037X (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 1616-6361 ; |