Advances in technology are demanding ever-increasing mastery
over the materials being used: the challenge is to gain a better
understanding of their behaviour, and more particularly of the
relations between their microstructure and their macroscopic
properties.
This work, of which this is the first volume, aims to provide
the means by which this challenge may be met. Starting from the
mechanics of deformation, it develops the laws governing
macroscopic behaviour expressed as the constitutive equations
always taking account of the physical phenomena which underlie
rheological behaviour. The most recent developments are presented,
in particular those concerning
heterogeneous materials such as metallic alloys, polymers and
composites. Each chapter is devoted to one of the major classes of
material behaviour.
As the subtitles indicate, Volume 1 deals with micro- and
macroscopic constitutive behaviour and Volume 2 with damage and
fracture mechanics. A third volume will be devoted to exercises and
their full solutions complementing the content of these two first
volumes.
Most of the chapters end with a set of exercises, to many of
which either the full solution or hints on how to obtain this are
given; each volume is profusely illustrated with explanatory
diagrams and with electron-microscope photographs.
This book, now in its second edition, has been rigorously
re-written, updated and modernised for a new generation. The
authors improved the existing material, in particular in modifying
the organisation, and added new up-to-date content. Understanding
the subject matter requires a good knowledge of solid mechanics and
materials science; the main elements of these fields are given in a
set of annexes at the
end of the first volume. The authors also thought it interesting
for the readers to give as footnotes some information about the
many scientists whose names are attached to theories and formulae
and whose memories must be celebrated.
Whilst the present book, as well as Volume 2, is addressed
primarily to graduate students, part of it can be used in
undergraduate courses; and it is hoped that practising engineers
and scientists will find the information it conveys useful. It is
the authors hope also that English-speaking readers will want to
learn about the aspects of French
culture, and more particularly of the French school of
micromechanics of materials, which this treatment undoubtedly
displays.
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