Mechanics of Soft Materials

• Main Author: Volokh, Konstantin (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Subjects: Engineering.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Continuum mechanics.; Biomaterials.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.

This book provides a concise introduction to soft matter modelling. It offers an up-to-date review of continuum mechanical description of soft and biological materials from the basics to the latest scientific materials. It includes multi-physics descriptions, such as chemo-, thermo-, electro- mechan...

Table of Contents:

• Tensors
• Kinematics
• Balance laws
• Isotropic elasticity
• Anisotropic elasticity
• Viscoelasticity
• Chemo-mechanical coupling
• Electro-mechanical coupling.