Mechanical behaviour of materials [electronic resource]. Volume 1 : micro- and macroscopic constitutive behaviour / Dominique Francois, Andre Pineau, Andre Zaoui.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

François, Dominique.

Contributor:

Pineau, A. (André)

Zaoui, Andre.

Series:

Solid mechanics and its applications ; v. 180.

Solid mechanics and its applications, 0925-0042 ; v. 180

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mechanics.

Materials science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (659 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2012.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Advances in technology are demanding ever-increasing mastery over the materials being used: the challenge is to gain a better understanding of their behaviour, and more particularly of the relations between their microstructure and their macroscopic properties. This work, of which this is the first volume, aims to provide the means by which this challenge may be met. Starting from the mechanics of deformation, it develops the laws governing macroscopic behaviour – expressed as the constitutive equations – always taking account of the physical phenomena which underlie rheological behaviour. The most recent developments are presented, in particular those concerning heterogeneous materials such as metallic alloys, polymers and composites. Each chapter is devoted to one of the major classes of material behaviour. As the subtitles indicate, Volume 1 deals with micro- and macroscopic constitutive behaviour and Volume 2 with damage and fracture mechanics. A third volume will be devoted to exercises and their full solutions complementing the content of these two first volumes. Most of the chapters end with a set of exercises, to many of which either the full solution or hints on how to obtain this are given; each volume is profusely illustrated with explanatory diagrams and with electron-microscope photographs. This book, now in its second edition, has been rigorously re-written, updated and modernised for a new generation. The authors improved the existing material, in particular in modifying the organisation, and added new up-to-date content. Understanding the subject matter requires a good knowledge of solid mechanics and materials science; the main elements of these fields are given in a set of annexes at the end of the first volume. The authors also thought it interesting for the readers to give as footnotes some information about the many scientists whose names are attached to theories and formulae and whose memories must be celebrated. Whilst the present book, as well as Volume 2, is addressed primarily to graduate students, part of it can be used in undergraduate courses; and it is hoped that practising engineers and scientists will find the information it conveys useful. It is the authors’ hope also that English-speaking readers will want to learn about the aspects of French culture, and more particularly of the French school of micromechanics of materials, which this treatment undoubtedly displays.

Contents:

Foreword

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Elastic behaviour

Chapter 3 Elastoplasticity

Chapter 4 Elastoviscoplasticity

Chapter 5 Viscoelasticity

Annex I Atomic and molecular structures

Annex II Phase transformations

Annex III Continuum mechanics: basic concepts and equations

Tables 1

Tables 2

Notations

Author Index

Subject Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786613712264

9781280861871

1280861878

9789400725461

9400725469

OCLC:

792881492