Rational Continua, Classical and New
Subtitle: a collection of papers dedicated to Gianfranco Capriz on the occasion of his 75th birthday
By: edited by P. Podio-Guidugli, M. Brocato
Contributors: Brocato, M.
Publisher: Springer Milan
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Milano
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9788847022317
Description: This book is a tribute to Gianfranco Capriz on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday. This book collects about twenty research papers written by world-leading scientists in the field of continuum thermomechanics. The authors discuss a number of different theories, classical and new. Moreover, general underlying themes are both the exploration of the limits of the continuum approach (as it was consolidated between the late '50s and the early '70s) and the study of those amendments and extensions that would hopefully allow to treat mathematically a host of real-life problems that have been proposed, but not yet adequately modelled, within materials science, structural optimisation, biosciences, medical engineering, superconductivity, etc. The reader will find displayed the recent progresses in modelling non-standard material structures.
Table of contents: title: From the contents: Elastic Symmetry Restrictions from Structural Gradients; title: Gaussian Curvature and Babuska's Paradox in the Theory of Plates; title: Induced Anisotropy, Particle Spin, and Effective Moduli in Granular Materials; title: A Continuum Description of Diatomic Systems; title: Some Questions on Material Objectivity Arising in Models of Porous Materials; title: Second-Order Surface Potentials in Finite Elasticity; title: On Uniqueness in Nonlinear Homogeneous Elasticity; title: Mediated Interactions of Proteins in Lipid Membranes; title: On the Hysteresis in Martensitic Transformations; title: Dissipative Fluids with Microstructure; title: The Thermistor Problem with the Thomson's Effect; title: Heat Conduction in a Non-Inertial Frame; title: Twin Balance Laws for Bodies Undergoing Structured Motions; title: Rank 1 Convexity for a Class of Incompressible Elastic Materials; title: Simplified Dynamics of a continuous Peptide Chain.