Mechanical Behaviour of Engineering Materials : Volume 2: Dynamic Loading and Intelligent Material Systems /

This monograph consists of two volumes and provides a unified, comprehensive presentation of the important topics pertaining to the understanding and determination of the mechanical behaviour of engineering materials under different regimes of loading. The large subject area is separated into eighte...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Haddad, Y. M. (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2000.
Subjects:	Physics. Mechanics. Vibration. Engineering design. Surfaces (Physics) Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

9 Transition to the Dynamic Behaviour of Engineering Materials
9.1 Introduction
9.2 Response Behaviour of Metals under Dynamic Loading
9.3 Metallurgical Effects
9.4 References
9.5 Further reading
10 Plastic Instability and Localization Effects
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Onset of Shear Banding
10.3 Strain-Rate and Temperature Effects
10.4 Bifurcation Analysis for Specific Constitutive Equations
10.5 Post-bifurcation Analysis
10.6 Plastic Instabilities in Specific Problems
10.7 Instability Propagation (Metallic and Polymeric Materials)
10.8 Flow Localization of Thermo-Elasto-Viscoplastic Solids
10.9 Effect of Material Rate History
10.10 Three-Dimensional Effects
10.11 Problems
10.12 References
11 Elastic Wave Propagation
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Elastic vs. Inelastic Waves
11.3 Elastic Wave Propagation
11.4 Reflection and Refraction of Waves at a Plane Interface
11.5 Wave Propagation in Bounded Elastic Solids
11.5.9. Stress waves in plates
11.6 Study Problems
11.7 Problems
11.8 References
11.9 Further Reading
12 Dynamic Plastic Behaviour
12.1 Introduction
12.2 The Dynamic Plasticity Problem
12.3 Dependence of the Wave Equation and its Characteristics on the Response Behaviour of the Material
12.4 The Problem ofInstantaneous Impact
12.5 Determination of the LoadinglUnloading Boundary
12.6 Plastic Shock Wave
12.8 Transition to Dynamic Thermoplasticity
12.9 References
12.10 Further Reading
13 Characterization of Linear Viscoelastic Response Using a Dynamic System Approach
13. 1 Introduction
13.2 Dynamic System Identification Methods
13.3 Discrete-time System Analysis as Based on the Time-rate of the Input Signal
13.4 Extension of the Model to Include the Instantaneous Response Behaviour
13.5 References
13.6 Further Reading
14 Viscoelastic Waves and Boundary Value Problem
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Internal Friction and Dissipation
14.3 Viscoelastic Wave Motion
14.4 Wave Propagation in Semi-Infinite Media
14.5 The Wave Equation in Linear Viscoelasticity as Based on Boltzmanns Superposition Principle
14.6 The Wave Propagation Problem as Based on the Correspondence Principle
14.7 Nonlinear Viscoelastic Wave Propagation
14.8 Acceleration Waves
14.9 Shock Waves
14.10 Thermodynamic Influences
14.11 Study Problems
14.12 Transition to the Viscoelastic Boundary Value Problem
14.13 Study Problems
14.14 References
14.15 Further Reading
15 Transition to the dynamic behaviour of structured and heterogeneous materials
15.1 Introduction
15.2 Influences of Material Properties on Dynamic Behaviour
15.3 Discontinuous vs. Continuous Fibre-Reinforcement
15.4 Sheet Molding Compounds (SMC)
15.5 The Trade-off between Damping and Stifthess in the Design of Discontinuous Fibre-Reinforced Composites
15.6 Study Problems
15.7 References
15.8 Further Reading
16 The Stochastic Micromechanical Approach to the Response Behaviour of Engineering Materials
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Probabilistic Micromechanical Response
16.3 The Stochastic Micromechanical Approach to the Response Behaviour of Polycrystalline Solids
16.4 References
16.5 Further Reading
17 Intelligent Materials - An Overview
17.1 Introduction
17.2 Definition ofan Intelligent Material
17.3 The Concept ofIntelligence in Engineering Materials
17.4 Artificial Intelligence in Materials
17.5 Optical Fibres as Sensors
17.6 Shape Memory Alloys (SMA)
17.7 Shape Memory Polymers
17.8 Electro-Rheological Fluids
17.9 References
18 Pattern Recognition and Classification Methodology for the Characterization of Material Response States
18.1 Introduction
18.2 The Acousto-Ultrasonics Technique
18.3 Fundamentals of the Design of Pattern-Recognition (PR) Systems
18.4 Illustrative Applications
18.5 Design and Testing ofa Pattern Recognition System
18.6 References
18.7 Further Reading
Appendix D The z-Transform
D.1 Introduction
D.2 Properties of the z-Transform
D.3 Relations between the z-Transform and Fourier Transform
Examples
D.4 Regions of Convergence for the z-Transform
D.5 The Inverse z-Transform
D.6 Problems
D.7 References
D.8 Further Reading
Cumulative Subject Index.