Iutam Symposium on Progress in the Theory and Numerics of Configurational Mechanics: Proceedings of the Iutam Symposium Held in Erlangen, Germany, Oct (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789048134465)

Con?gurational mechanics has attracted quite a bit of attention from various - search ?elds over the recent years/decades. Having been regarded in its infancy of the early years as a somewhat obscureand almost mystic ?eld of researchthat could only be understood by a happy few of insiders with a pronounced theoretical inc- nation, con?gurational mechanics has developed by now into a versatile tool that can be applied to a variety of problems. Since the seminal works of Eshelby a general notion of con?gurational - chanics has been developed and has successfully been applied to many pr- lems involving various types of defects in continuous media. The most pro- nent application is certainly the use of con?gurational forces in fracture - chanics. However, as con?gurational mechanics is related to arbitrary mat- ial inhomogeneities it has also very successfully been applied to many ma- rials science and engineering problems such as phase transitions and inelastic deformations. Also the modeling of materials with micro-structure evolution is an important ?eld, in which con?gurational mechanics can provide a better understanding of processes going on within the material. Besides these mechanically, physically, and chemically motivated applications, ideas from con?gurational mechanics are now increasingly applied within computational mechanics.

Author: Paul Steinmann
ISBN-10: 9048134463
ISBN-13: 9789048134465
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 08/19/2009
Pages: 271
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.27lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d