Gianfranco Capriz • Continua with Microstructure

Gianfranco Capriz • Continua with Microstructure

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).

Keywords: Continua, Invariance, Conservation of Mass, Inertia, Balance, Boundary Conditions, Fluids, Momentum, Constraints, Voids, Bubbles, Dilatant granular Materials, Korteweg Fuid, uniaxial Liquid Crystals, Cosserat, Thermodynamic, Hyperelastic Bodies, Phase Transistions, Droplets

Springer. Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy - Volume 35, Hardback, english, 92 pages