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This volume contains the lectures presented at the mini-symposium
on "Micromechanics" held in conjunction with the CSME Mechanical
Engineer ing Forum 1990 between the 3rd and 8th June, 1990 at the
University of Toronto, Canada. The expressed purpose of this
symposium was to discuss some recent developments in the
Micromechanics of Materials and how ad vances in this field now
relate to the solution of practical engineer ing problems. Due to
the time limit set for this section of the Engineer ing Forum as
well as the restriction on the number of papers to be pre sented,
it was not possible to cover a much wider range of topics. How
ever, an attempt was made to include the most important advances
asso ciated with the progress made in micromechanics in its
application to material science and engineering over the past
decade. Thus, the topics are concerned with: the fundamental
aspects of the thermodynamics of structured solids (part I), - the
micromechanical behaviour of alloys (part II), - the modelling of
the material behaviour on the basis of continuum theory (part III),
and finally the important new approach to the characterization of
various mate rials and their responses to external agencies by the
use of proba bilistic micromechanics (part IV). We would like to
take this opportunity to thank the Chairman of the Organizing
Committee, Prof. F. P. J. Rimrott, and the President of the CSME,
Prof. T. S."
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.
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