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Advances in Applied Mechanics Volume 34
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[b]by:[/b] Erik van der Giessen, Theodore Y. Wu
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Advances in Applied Mechanics Volume 34
By Erik van der Giessen, Theodore Y. Wu
Publisher: Academic Press
Number Of Pages: 439
Publication Date: 1998-01-15
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0120020343
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780120020348
Product Description:
This highly acclaimed series provides survey articles on the present state and future direction of research in important branches of applied mechanics
Advances in Applied Mechanics has a history of publishing comprehensive,
state-of-the-art articles in numerous subfields of applied mechanics.
But in no way does this imply that this particular area has been fully
excavated. The articles in the present volume give convincing evidence that
the developments often continue, requiring an update of previous advances.
Eduard Riks' article gives an up-to-date overview of the advancements
made in the area of (post)buckling analysis since the often-quoted article
in this series by B. Budiansky in 1974 (Vol. 14, pp. 2-65). In addition to
providing a thorough outline of modern, computational techniques for
buckling and postbuckling analysis of structures, this article also discusses
recent methods of carrying out transient analyses after loss of stability.
The latter offers new interesting insights into the notorious phenomenon
of mode jumping.
The article by Paul R. Dawson and Esteban B. Marin is related to R. J.
Asaro's contribution to this series (Vol. 23, 1983, pp. 1-11.9, which marked
the beginning of a rapid expansion of numerical applications of crystal and
polycrystal plasticity. The article in this volume gives an exposition of some
important refinements in computational methods that make polycrystal
plasticity a viable tool for actually solving engineering forming processes.
Particular emphasis is placed on recent innovations in the description of
crystal orientations. In addition, this paper presents numerous examples of
metals with a hexagonal close packed (HCP) crystal structure.
Owing to seminal work in the 1960s, the linear-elastic properties of
composite materials can now be estimated analytically from the properties
of their constituents, along with the microstructure, with remarkable
accuracy. Estimates of composite properties in the case of nonlinear
material behavior, such as creep or plasticity, of one or more of the
components are much more difficult to obtain. Analytical approaches to
this problem that incorporate microstructural information have only been
attempted during the last decade or so. The article by Pedro Ponte
in this field based on variational methods. This scholarly work summarizes
the key theoretical tools and presents applications to numerous model
materials, with an emphasis on the effect of microstructure.
The Chapter by Oleg S. Ryzhov and Elena V. Bogdanova-Ryzhova is a
pioneering study of the fully developed nonlinear instability of viscous
boundary layer during the final stage of transition into turbulent flow. This
study is based on the important discoveries of several remarkable phenomena,
first found by experiment at the Novosibirsk branch of the Russian
Academy and now by theory, that the underlying mechanism actually
involves generation of solitary waves under resonant forcing from flowboundary
roughness and vibration. It appears that these results will be of
general interest to researchers in this important field.
In the article by Wei H. Yang, the author presents a task of integrating
the existing and new bases of the mathematical theory of plasticity. In
addition to the previously established conditions of convexity and normality
as two pillars of support, an additional pillar, called the duality, is
introduced here in terms of an equality inclusive condition which is
claimed to bring the foundation to completion for the constitutive modeling
of the mathematical theory of plasticity.
This series had the fortune of being cultivated during the period
1971-1982 under the editorship of Professor Chia-Shun Yih, who made
outstanding contributions in realizing advances of this series with distinction
and subsequently continued serving as a wise counsel until his passing
on 25 April 1997. It is with our sincere appreciation of his dynamic
leadership and guidance that we pay our warm tribute to his memory.
Theodore Y. Wu and Erik van der Giessen
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