Continuum Models for Phase Transitions and Twinning in Crystals (Applied Mathematics)
Publisher: Chapman & Hall/CRC
Published: June 27, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780849303272
Subjects: Crystallography; Mathematical modelling; Mathematics for scientists & engineers; Thermodynamics & statistical physics; Science; General; Twinning (Crystallography); Analytic Mechanics (Mathematical Aspects); Mathematics; Physics; Science/Mathematics; Phase transitions (Statistical; Applied; Mathematics / Applied; Advanced; Continuum Mechanics; Phase transformations (Statistical physics)
First sentence: Since the mid-seventies there has been a strong and remarkably successful effort to use 3-dimensional nonlinear thermoelasticity theory for modelling the behavior of crystalline solids in the range of finite deformations.