Heterogeneous Materials I - Muhammad Sahimi

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Résumé :
8. Rigidity and Elastic Properties: The Discrete Approach 8. 0 Introduction 8. 1 Elastic Networks in Biological Materials 8. 2 Number of Elastic Moduli of a Lattice 8. 3 Numerical Simulation and Finite-Size Scaling 8. 4 Derivation of Elastic Networks from Continuum Elasticity 8. 4. 1 The Born model 8. 4. 2 Shortcomings of the Born model 8. 5 The Central-Force Network 8. 6 Rigidity Percolation 8. 6. 1 Static and dynamic rigidity and ?oppiness of networks 8. 6. 2 The correlation length of rigidity percolation 8. 6. 3 The force distribution 8. 6. 4 Determination of the percolation threshold 8. 6. 4. 1 Moments of the force distribution 8. 6. 4. 2 The pebble game 8. 6. 4. 3 Constraint-counting method 8. 6. 5 Mapping between rigidity percolation and resistor networks 8. 6. 6 Nature of phase transition in rigidity percolation 8. 6. 7 Scaling properties of the elastic moduli 8. 7 Green Function Formulation and Perturbation Expansion 8. 7. 1 E?ective-medium approximation 8. 7. 2 The Born model 8. 7. 3 Rigidity percolation 8. 8 The Critical Path Method 8. 9 Central-Force Networks at Non-zero Temperature and under Stress 8. 10 Shortcomings of the Central-Force Networks 8. 11 Elastic Percolation Networks with Bond-Bending Forces 8. 11. 1 The Kirkwood-Keating model xiv 8. 11. 2 The bond-bending model 8. 11. 3 The percolation thresholds 8. 11. 4 The force distribution 8. 11. 5 Comparison of the central-force and bond-bending networks 8. 11.

Sommaire:
This book describes and discusses the properties of heterogeneous materials, both linear and nonlinear properties, providing comprehensive and up to date theoretical and computer simulation analysis of materials' properties. Volume I covers linear properties, while Volume II considers non-linear and fracture and breakdown properties, as well as atomistic modeling. This multidisciplinary book will appeal to applied physicists, materials scientists, chemical and mechanical engineers, chemists, and applied mathematicians....

From the reviews: This work represents the first part of an impressive two-volume book that describes various theoretical and computational approaches related to effective macroscopic properties of heterogeneous materials. ... A main goal is to compare two fundamental directions used to study the heterogeneous materials properties, namely the continuum mechanics approach and the discrete model approach. ... This multidisciplinary book is recommended to materials scientists, chemical and mechanical engineers, and applied physicists and mathematicians. (Olivian Simionescu, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1028, 2004)