Generalized Continua as Models for Classical and Advanced Materials

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Altenbach, Holm (Editor), Forest, Samuel (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Series: Advanced Structured Materials, 42
• Subjects: Engineering.; Continuum mechanics.; Engineering > Materials.; Materials science.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.; Materials Engineering.

This volume is devoted to an actual topic which is the focus world-wide of various research groups. It contains contributions describing the material behavior on different scales, new existence and uniqueness theorems, the formulation of constitutive equations for advanced materials. The main emphas...

Table of Contents:

• 1 On Strain Rate Tensors and Constitutive Equations of Inelastic Micropolar Materials
• 2 On the Modelling of Carbon Nano Tubes as Generalized Continua
• 3 Isogeometric Analysis of Gradient-Elastic 1D and 2D Problems
• 4 A Fast Fourier Transform-Based Approach for Generalized Disclination Mechanics Within a Couple Stress Theory
• 5 Some Cases of Unrecognized Transmission of Scientific Knowledge: from Antiquity to Gabrio Piola’s Peridynamics and Generalized Continuum Theories
• 6 Computational Analysis of the Size Effects Displayed in Beams with Lattice Microstructures.