Multiscale Modeling of Complex Materials: Phenomenological, Theoretical and Computational Aspects

✍ Scribed by Tomasz Sadowski, Patrizia Trovalusci (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 285
• Series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences 556
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The papers in this volume deal with materials science, theoretical mechanics and experimental and computational techniques at multiple scales, providing a sound base and a framework for many applications which are hitherto treated in a phenomenological sense. The basic principles are formulated of multiscale modeling strategies towards modern complex multiphase materials subjected to various types of mechanical, thermal loadings and environmental effects. The focus is on problems where mechanics is highly coupled with other concurrent physical phenomena. Attention is also focused on the historical origins of multiscale modeling and foundations of continuum mechanics currently adopted to model non-classical continua with substructure, for which internal length scales play a crucial role.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-vii
Atomistic-Continuum Couplings for Dynamic Fracture....Pages 1-28
On the method of virtual power in the mechanics of non-classical continua....Pages 29-58
Adaptive Concurrent Multi-level Modeling of Multi-scale Ductile Failure in Heterogeneous Metallic Materials....Pages 59-106
Fractals and Randomness in Mechanics of Materials....Pages 107-150
Modelling of damage and fracture processes of ceramic matrix composites under mechanical loading....Pages 151-178
Multiscale Modeling of Damage in Composite Materials....Pages 179-209
Molecular Approaches for Multifield Continua: origins and current developments....Pages 211-278

✦ Subjects

Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials; Structural Materials; Mechanical Engineering