Mechanics of Materials and Interfaces: The Disturbed State Concept - Hardcover

Desai, Chandrakant S.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 084930248X ISBN 13: 9780849302480

Publisher: CRC Press, 2000

Synopsis

The disturbed state concept (DSC) is a unified, constitutive modelling approach for engineering materials that allows for elastic, plastic, and creep strains, microcracking and fracturing, stiffening or healing, all within a single, hierarchical framework. Its capabilities go well beyond other available material models yet lead to significant simplifications for practical applications. Until now, however, there has been no resource that fully describes the theory, techniques, and potential of this powerful method.

Mechanics of Materials and Interfaces: Disturbed State Concept presents a detailed theoretical treatment of the DSC and shows that it can provide a unified and simplified approach for mathematical characterization of the mechanical response of materials and interfaces. Within this comprehensive treatment, the author:

Compares the DSC with other available models

Identifies the physical meaning of the relevant parameters and presents procedures to determine them from laboratory test data

Validates the DSC models with respect to laboratory tests used to find the parameters and independent tests not used in the calibration

Implements the models in computer procedures

Validates those procedures by comparing predictions with observations from simulated and field boundary value problems

Solves problems from a variety of disciplines, including civil, mechanical, and electrical engineering

If you are involved in the mechanics of materials, you owe it to yourself to explore the disturbed state concept. Mechanics of Materials and Interfaces provides the first-and to date, the only-comprehensive means of doing so.

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Review

"a very comprehensive, yet mainly traditional, book on mathematical modelling aimed essentially at the chemical engineering and related areas -- although I would feel happy about recommending this book to anyone interested in mathematical modelling in any area of science and engineeringa great readIt ranges over many applicationsthe treatment in each case takes no prisoners, and is very sophisticated -- it is definitely addressed to the competent mathematics graduatePlenty of references for further reading and many exercises, projects, etc, make this another gold-mine." - The Mathematical Gazette, November 2001 "The author's writing style is frank, simple and directbook is quite readableaccessible to a wide variety of readers." --RL Houston

Edition details

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 084930248X
• ISBN 13: 9780849302480
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 712