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Contributed by world-renowned specialists on the occasion of Paul Germain's 80th birthday, this text reflects the foundational works and the intellectual influence of this author. It presents the realm of modern thermomechanics with its wealth of applications to the behaviour of materials, whether solid or fluid. The 31 contributions follow an autobiographical sketch by Paul Germain, and highlight the power of a methodological approach to the phenomenology of many materials. This approach combines thermodynamics and continuum theory in order to provide exploitable, thermodynamically admissible models of a large variety of behaviours and phenomena, including those of diffusion, thermoelasticity, viscoplasticity, relaxation, hysteresis, wetting, shape-memory effects, growth, phase transitions, stability, fracture, shocks, machining of materials, microstructured solids, and complex fluids. The text should be useful for graduate students, researchers, and engineers in mechanical engineering and materials science.

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Author:   Gérard A. Maugin ,  Raymonde Drouot ,  François Sidoroff
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2000 ed.
Volume:   76
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.730kg
ISBN:  

9780792364078

ISBN 10:   0792364074
Pages:   422
Publication Date:   31 August 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Double diffusive aspects of the convection in moist-saturated air.- Application of the theory of Cosserat media to the elasto-plastic behaviour of polycrystals.- From Clausius to finite anelasticity, via Bridgman, Eckart and Ziegler.- On viscous fluid flow near a moving crack tip.- Elastoviscoplasticity with aging in aluminium alloys.- The application of the irreversible thermodynamics to the development of constitutive equations.- On micromechanics of martensitic transformation in SMA and TRIP steels.- Modelling of coupled effects of damage by microcracking and friction in closed cracks.- Structural plastic microbuckling and compressive strength of long-fibre composite materials.- A new method of optimisation for composite structures.- Material evolution in plasticity and growth.- Thermoelasticity of second-grade media.- The power of the interior forces in solid mechanics.- A continuum damage model in stress corrosion.- Modelling Wetting Behaviour.- Thermodynamics and phenomenology.- On the thermomechanical modelling of shape memory alloys.- Thermo-Mechanical Modelling of Nematic Polymers.- Multiscale thermomechanical approaches to SMA behaviour.- Regularization of flutter ill-posedness in fluid-saturated porous media.- A 3D-Numerical Thermomechanical Approach for Materials Cutting.- From Clausius-Duhem and Drucker-Ilyushin inequalities to standard materials.- Constitutive relations involving internal variables based on a micromechanical analysis.- Adiabatic shear banding as an example of viscoplastic flow instability.- On the evaluation of damping in a structure with viscoelastic components.- Standard dissipative systems and stability analysis.- Enriched damage models for continuum failure analyses.- Constitutive laws, relaxation thermodynamics and Lagrange-formalism.- Second-gradient theory: Application to Cahn-Hilliard fluids.- Thermodynamics and duality in finite elastoplasticity.- Thermodynamical description of running discontinuities.

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