Non-Linearity and Breakdown in Soft Condensed Matter
Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Calcutta, India 1–9 December 1993
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Beschreibung
There have been considerable advances in recent times in understanding many common material processes that are of practical importance, such as nonlinear response, fracture, breakdown, earthquakes, packing, and granular flow, that are of immense practical importance. This has been mainly due to new applications of statistical physics, including percolation theory, fractal concepts and self-organized criticality. This collection of articles brings together research in those closely allied fields. It deals with problems in material science involving random geometries and nonlinearity at a mesoscopic scale, where local disorder and nonlinearity influence the global behaviour of cracks, for example, and problems where randomness in time evolution is as crucial as the geometry itself.
This book contains up-to-date (theoretical and experimental) review articles by experts in solid-state physics and materials science and addresses physicists as well as engineers. It should also be of considerable interest to graduate students.
Autor*in
Kamal K. Bardhan
Themen in »Non-Linearity and Breakdown in Soft Condensed Matter«
Breakdown Complex fluids Earthquake Fractals Granular flow Mesoscopic physics Percolating solids Random composites Sandpile Soft Condensed Matter fracture porous media solids