Barnes & Noble IUTAM Symposium on Progress the Theory and Numerics of Configurational Mechanics: Proceedings held Erlangen, Germany, October 20-24, 2008 at Hamilton Place in Chattanooga, TN
IUTAM Symposium on Progress the Theory and Numerics of Configurational Mechanics: Proceedings held Erlangen, Germany, October 20-24, 2008 in Chattanooga, TN
IUTAM Symposium on Progress the Theory and Numerics of Configurational Mechanics: Proceedings held Erlangen, Germany, October 20-24, 2008 in Chattanooga, TN
Configurational mechanics has attracted quite a bit of attention from various - search fields over the recent years/decades. Having been regarded in its infancy of the early years as a somewhat obscureand almost mystic field of researchthat could only be understood by a happy few of insiders with a pronounced theoretical inc- nation, configurational mechanics has developed by now into a versatile tool that can be applied to a variety of problems. Since the seminal works of Eshelby a general notion of configurational - chanics has been developed and has successfully been applied to many pr- lems involving various types of defects in continuous media. The most pro- nent application is certainly the use of configurational forces in fracture - chanics. However, as configurational mechanics is related to arbitrary mat- ial inhomogeneities it has also very successfully been applied to many ma- rials science and engineering problems such as phase transitions and inelastic deformations. Also the modeling of materials with micro-structure evolution is an important field, in which configurational mechanics can provide a better understanding of processes going on within the material. Besides these mechanically, physically, and chemically motivated applications, ideas from configurational mechanics are now increasingly applied within computational mechanics.
Configurational mechanics has attracted quite a bit of attention from various - search fields over the recent years/decades. Having been regarded in its infancy of the early years as a somewhat obscureand almost mystic field of researchthat could only be understood by a happy few of insiders with a pronounced theoretical inc- nation, configurational mechanics has developed by now into a versatile tool that can be applied to a variety of problems. Since the seminal works of Eshelby a general notion of configurational - chanics has been developed and has successfully been applied to many pr- lems involving various types of defects in continuous media. The most pro- nent application is certainly the use of configurational forces in fracture - chanics. However, as configurational mechanics is related to arbitrary mat- ial inhomogeneities it has also very successfully been applied to many ma- rials science and engineering problems such as phase transitions and inelastic deformations. Also the modeling of materials with micro-structure evolution is an important field, in which configurational mechanics can provide a better understanding of processes going on within the material. Besides these mechanically, physically, and chemically motivated applications, ideas from configurational mechanics are now increasingly applied within computational mechanics.
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