Continuum Thermomechanics:: The Art and Science of Modelling Material Behavior A Volume Dedicated to Paul Germain on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications)

contributed By World-renowned Specialists On The Occasion Of Paul Germain's 80th Birthday, This Unique Book Reflects The Foundational Works And The Intellectual Influence Of This Author. It Presents The Realm Of Modern Thermomechanics With Its Extraordinary Wealth Of Applications To The Behaviour Of Materials, Whether Solid Or Fluid. The Thirty-one Contributions Follow An Easygoing Autobiographical Sketch By Paul Germain, And Highlight The Power And Richness Of A Methodological Approach To The Phenomenology Of Many Materials. This Approach Combines Harmoniously Thermodynamics And Continuum Theory In Order To Provide Exploitable, Thermodynamically Admissible Models Of A Large Variety Of Behaviours And Phenomena, Including Those Of Diffusion, Thermoelasticity, Viscoplasticity, Relaxation, Hysteresis, Wetting, Shape-memory Effects, Growth, Phase Transitions, Stability, Fracture, Shocks, Machining Of Materials, Microstructured Solids, Complex Fluids, Etc. Especially Aimed At Graduate Students, Researchers, And Engineers In Mechanical Engineering And Materials Science, This Book Also Presents The State Of The Art In An Active Field Of Research And Opens New Horizons In Other Scientific Fields, Such As Applied Mathematics And Applied Physics, Because Of The Intellectual Satisfaction And Remarkable Efficiency Provided By The Advocated Approach. Double diffusive aspects of the convection in moist-saturated air....Pages 29-42 Application of the theory of Cosserat media to the elasto-plastic behaviour of polycrystals....Pages 43-54 From Clausius to finite anelasticity, via Bridgman, Eckart and Ziegler....Pages 55-62 On viscous fluid flow near a moving crack tip....Pages 63-74 Elastoviscoplasticity with aging in aluminium alloys....Pages 75-86 The application of the irreversible thermodynamics to the development of constitutive equations....Pages 87-100 On micromechanics of martensitic transformation in SMA and TRIP steels....Pages 101-112 Modelling of coupled effects of damage by microcracking and friction in closed cracks....Pages 113-124 Structural plastic microbuckling and compressive strength of long-fibre composite materials....Pages 125-136 A new method of optimisation for composite structures....Pages 137-151 Material evolution in plasticity and growth....Pages 153-162 Thermoelasticity of second-grade media....Pages 163-176 The power of the interior forces in solid mechanics....Pages 177-188 A continuum damage model in stress corrosion....Pages 189-196 Modelling Wetting Behaviour....Pages 197-208 Thermodynamics and phenomenology....Pages 209-223 On the thermomechanical modelling of shape memory alloys....Pages 225-236 Thermo-Mechanical Modelling of Nematic Polymers....Pages 237-246 Multiscale thermomechanical approaches to SMA behaviour....Pages 247-264 Regularization of flutter ill-posedness in fluid-saturated porous media....Pages 265-276 A 3D-Numerical Thermomechanical Approach for Materials Cutting....Pages 277-288 From Clausius-Duhem and Drucker-Ilyushin inequalities to standard materials....Pages 289-300 Constitutive relations involving internal variables based on a micromechanical analysis....Pages 301-312 Adiabatic shear banding as an example of viscoplastic flow instability....Pages 313-330 On the evaluation of damping in a structure with viscoelastic components....Pages 331-342 Standard dissipative systems and stability analysis....Pages 343-354 Enriched damage models for continuum failure analyses....Pages 355-366 Constitutive laws, relaxation thermodynamics and Lagrange-formalism....Pages 367-378 Second-gradient theory: Application to Cahn-Hilliard fluids....Pages 379-388 Thermodynamics and duality in finite elastoplasticity....Pages 389-400 Thermodynamical description of running discontinuities....Pages 401-412 Some of my former students have been kind enough to dedicate to me for my eightieth anniversary a volume of their original contributions and they asked me to write a few lines as a preface.