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Mechanics of Generalized Continua

One Hundred Years After the Cosserats

  • Showcases several areas of continuum mechanics that are outgrowths of the work of the Cosserat brothers
  • Focuses on recent developments in continuum mechanics and materials design, presenting several applications of these theories
  • Provides an overview of research from many different areas of continuum mechanics
  • Can serve as a useful reference for graduate students and researchers in mechanical engineering, materials science, applied physics and applied mathematics
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advances in Mechanics and Mathematics (AMMA, volume 21)

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Table of contents (34 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XIX
  2. On the Cosserat’s Works

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
  3. On the Cosserat's works

    1. On Semi-Holonomic Cosserat Media

      • Marcelo Epstein
      Pages 15-24
  4. Cosserat Media (Rigidly Rotating Microstructure)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
  5. Cosserat media (rigidly rotating microstructure)

    1. On the Theories of Plates Based on the Cosserat Approach

      • Holm Altenbach, Victor A. Eremeyev
      Pages 27-35
    2. Cracks in Cosserat Continuum—Macroscopic Modeling

      • Arcady V. Dyskin, Elena Pasternak
      Pages 37-45
    3. Linear Cosserat Elasticity, Conformal Curvature and Bounded Stiffness

      • Patrizio Neff, Jena Jeong, Ingo Münch, Hamidréza Ramézani
      Pages 55-63
    4. Natural Lagrangian Strain Measures of the Non-Linear Cosserat Continuum

      • Wojciech Pietraszkiewicz, Victor A. Eremeyev
      Pages 79-86
    5. Practical Applications of Simple Cosserat Methods

      • David A. Burton, Robin W. Tucker
      Pages 87-95
  6. Micromorphic Media (Deformable Microstructure)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
  7. Micromorphic media (deformable microstructure)

    1. Requirements on Periodic Micromorphic Media

      • Ralf Jänicke, Stefan Diebels
      Pages 99-107
    2. Extending Micromorphic Theory to Atomic Scale

      • James D. Lee, Youping Chen, Xianqiao Wang
      Pages 109-117
  8. From the Discrete to the Continuum Description (Cosserat and Other Continua Often in Relation to Dynamical Properties, Homogenization)

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
  9. From the discrete to the continuum description (Cosserat and other continua often in relation to dynamical properties, homogenization)

    1. Generalized Beams and Continua. Dynamics of Reticulated Structures

      • Claude Boutin, Stéphane Hans, Céline Chesnais
      Pages 131-141
    2. Wave Propagation in Damaged Materials Using a New Generalized Continuum Model

      • Vladimir I. Erofeyev, Elena A. Nikitina, Alla V. Sharabanova
      Pages 143-148

About this book

In their 1909 publication Théorie des corps déformables, Eugène and François Cosserat made a historic contribution to materials science by establishing the fundamental principles of the mechanics of generalized continua. The chapters collected in this volume showcase the many areas of continuum mechanics that grew out of the foundational work of the Cosserat brothers.

The included contributions provide a detailed survey of the most recent theoretical developments in the field of generalized continuum mechanics. The diverse topics covered include: the properties of Cosserat media, micromorphic bodies, micropolar solids and fluids, weakly- and strongly-nonlocal theories, gradient theories of elasticity and plasticity, defect theory, everywhere-defective materials, bodies with fractal structure, as well as other related topics.

Mechanics of Generalized Continua can serve as a useful reference for graduate students and researchers in mechanical engineering, materials science, applied physics and applied mathematics.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, Université Paris VI, Paris CX 5, France

    Gérard A. Maugin

  • Faculty of Civil Engineering and, Delft University of Technology,, Delft, Netherlands

    Andrei V. Metrikine

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