Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521328535 ISBN 13: 9780521328531

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Translation of a hugely successful book aimed at advanced undergraduates, graduate students and researchers. The authors discuss a modern method of mathematically modelling the behaviour of macroscopic volume elements.

Críticas:

' ... an excellent book for those needing a comprehensive understanding of the mechanical and thermal behaviour of solids.' Choice

Reseña del editor:

Elasticity, plasticity, damage mechanics and cracking are all phenomena which determine the resistance of solids to deformation and fracture. The authors of this book discuss a modern method of mathematically modelling the behaviour of macroscopic volume elements. The book is self-contained and the first three chapters review physical mechanisms at the microstructural level, thermodynamics of irreversible processes, mechanics of continuous media, and the classification of the behaviour of solids. The rest of the book is devoted to the modelling of different types of material behaviour. In each case the authors present characteristic data for numerous materials, and discuss the physics underlying the phenomena together with methods for the numerical analysis of the resulting equations.