Multiscaling in Molecular and Continuum Mechanics: Interaction of Time and Size from Macro to Nano Application to biology, physics, material science, mechanics, structural and processing engineering /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sih, G. C. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2007.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Structural mechanics.; Structural Mechanics.

This volume on multiscaling has been motivated by the advancement of nano-technology in the past four decades. In particular, nano-electronics has paved the way to show that the behavior of nano-size bodies are not only different from macro-size bodies but they do not obey the same physical laws. Th...