Constitutive Laws and Microstructure : Proceedings of the Seminar Wissenschaftskolleg -- Institute for Advanced Study Berlin, February 23-24, 1987

A special survey of the extensive field of Constitutive Laws is given in 11 lectures, divided into three parts: Thermodynamics of Materials, Stochastic Processes and Material Behaviour, Constitutive Relations for Simple Fluids and Microphysics of Solids. The collection of lectures comprehends a novel survey of thermodynamical constitutive theories, and contributions to material theories with after-effects including experiments, stochastic constitutive laws, molecular dynamics for simulating material properties, electrodynamical constitutive properties, and thermodynamic and microphysical modelling of polymers. The selected lectures emphasize the microstructural aspect of constitutive laws, and this collection presents a new facet of constitutive laws. Front Matter....Pages I-IX Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Thermodynamical Constitutive Laws - Outlines -....Pages 3-25 Thermodynamical Considerations on Plastic and Viscoplastic Behaviour of Solid Bodies....Pages 27-42 Metal Plasticity as a Problem of Thermodynamics....Pages 43-46 Description and Simulation of Shape Memory....Pages 47-60 Front Matter....Pages 61-61 Markov-Chains as Models for the Inelastic Behaviour of Metals....Pages 63-76 Stochastic Analysis of Structural Changes in Solids....Pages 77-90 Front Matter....Pages 91-91 Molecular Dynamics: Test of Microscopic Models for the Material Properties of Matter....Pages 93-114 Localization of Waves due to Disorder in Solids....Pages 115-128 Electromagnetic Control of Material Properties in Multipole Elastic Composites....Pages 129-136 Thermodynamic Modelling of Polymers in Solution....Pages 137-161 A Microphysical Model of Crystallizing Polymers....Pages 163-173 Front Matter....Pages 175-175 Discussion....Pages 175-204 Back Matter....Pages 205-206