Modeling High Temperature Materials Behavior for Structural Analysis, Part I: Continuum Mechanics Foundations and Constitutive Models (Advanced Structured Materials, 28)

Hardcover, xiii + 371 pages, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Minor handling wear only. Issued without a dust jacket. -- "Develops methods to simulate and analyze high temperature and inelastic processes of materials and structures. Offers an avenue to the classical and recent modeling of high-temperature mechanics and inelastic properties. Applies the model to many examples and shows how they solve several problems. Includes supplementary material. -- This monograph presents approaches to characterize inelastic behavior of materials and structures at high temperature. Starting from experimental observations, it discusses basic features of inelastic phenomena including creep, plasticity, relaxation, low cycle and thermal fatigue. The authors formulate constitutive equations to describe the inelastic response for the given states of stress and microstructure. They introduce evolution equations to capture hardening, recovery, softening, ageing and damage processes. Principles of continuum mechanics and thermodynamics are presented to provide a framework for the modeling materials behavior with the aim of structural analysis of high-temperature engineering components.".…