Mechanics and Physics of Energy Density: Characterization of Material/Structure Behaviour with and Without Damage (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780792306047)

Material technology has become so diversified in theories and the construction of novel microstructures that the researchers and practitioners are drifting further apart. This book is based on material presented at an International Symposium in Xanthi, Greece in July 1989. The symposium attracted a group of individual engineers and scientists from the East and West who tackled the question of why particular manipulations of a given material have particular effects. Emphasis is laid on the strain energy function because of the versatile role it plays in mechanics and physics. It has been used successfully not only in predicting the failure of solids but also in formulating constitutive relations in continuum mechanics.
The material presented falls within the areas of: Fundamentals of Strain Energy Density, Damage Analysis on Strain Energy Density, Strain Energy Density as Failure Criterion, Applications, and Composites.


Author: George C. Sih
ISBN-10: 079230604X
ISBN-13: 9780792306047
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 01/31/1992
Pages: 210
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 9.56h x 6.54w x 0.77d