Material inhomogeneities in elasticity /
Self contained, this book presents a thorough introduction to the complementary notions of physical forces and material (or configurational) forces. All the required elements of continuum mechanics, deformation theory and differential geometry are also covered. This book will be a great help to many...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Chapman and Hall,
1993.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Applied mathematics and mathematical computation ;
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Self contained, this book presents a thorough introduction to the complementary notions of physical forces and material (or configurational) forces. All the required elements of continuum mechanics, deformation theory and differential geometry are also covered. This book will be a great help to many, whilst revealing to others a rather new facet of continuum mechanics in general, and elasticity in particular. An organized exposition of continuum mechanics on the material manifold is given which allows for the consideration of material inhomogeneities in their most appropriate framework. In such a frame the nonlinear elasticity of anisotropic inhomogenous materials appears to be a true field theory. Extensions to the cases of electroelasticity and magnetelasticity are then straightforward. In addition, this original approach provides systematic computational means for the evaluation of characteristic parameters which are useful in various branches of applied mechanics and mathematical physics. This is the case for path-independent integrals and energy-release rates in brittle fracture, the influence of electromagnetic fields on fracture criteria (such as in ceramics), the notion of momentum of electromagnetic fields in matter in optics, and the perturbation of solitons propagating in elastic dispersive systems. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781489944818 1489944818 9781003059882 1003059880 9781000153057 1000153053 9781000126273 1000126277 9781000110012 100011001X |