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Mechanics of Soft Materials

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  • Provides a concise introduction to soft matter modelling

  • Offers an up-to-date review of continuum mechanical description of soft and biological materials

  • Includes state-of-the-art multi-physics descriptions such as chemo-, thermo-, electro- mechanical coupling

  • Features numerous elaborated examples on all topics throughout the text

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Tensors

    • Konstantin Volokh
    Pages 1-19
  3. Kinematics

    • Konstantin Volokh
    Pages 21-35
  4. Balance Laws

    • Konstantin Volokh
    Pages 37-52
  5. Isotropic Elasticity

    • Konstantin Volokh
    Pages 53-75
  6. Anisotropic Elasticity

    • Konstantin Volokh
    Pages 77-90
  7. Incremental Equations

    • Konstantin Volokh
    Pages 91-99
  8. Thermoelasticity

    • Konstantin Volokh
    Pages 101-111
  9. Chemoelasticity

    • Konstantin Volokh
    Pages 113-123
  10. Electroelasticity

    • Konstantin Volokh
    Pages 125-136
  11. Viscoelasticity

    • Konstantin Volokh
    Pages 137-152
  12. Back Matter

    Pages 153-155

About this book

This book provides a concise introduction to soft matter modelling. It offers an up-to-date review of continuum mechanical description of soft and biological materials from the basics to the latest scientific materials.  It includes multi-physics descriptions, such as chemo-, thermo-, electro- mechanical coupling.

It derives from a graduate course at Technion that has been established in recent years. It presents original explanations for some standard materials and features elaborated examples on all topics throughout the text. PowerPoint lecture notes can be provided to instructors.

 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Civil Engineering, Technion City, Technion, Haifa, Israel

    Konstantin Volokh

About the author

Konstantin Volokh is an award-winning scientist with over 20 years’ experience in teaching mechanics. He joined Technion – Israel Institute of Technology – in 1994 where he developed courses in Continuum Mechanics, Mechanics of Soft Materials, and Elasticity.

Professor Volokh is active as an editor-in-chief, editor, and reviewer for numerous publications, and he has organized several scientific conferences around the world. His current scientific interests include investigating and modelling nonlinear and failure processes in engineering and biological materials.<

 

 



Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mechanics of Soft Materials

  • Authors: Konstantin Volokh

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1599-1

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9396-8Published: 07 June 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-1599-1Published: 17 June 2016

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 155

  • Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Solid Mechanics, Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Biomaterials

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eBook USD 69.99
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Softcover Book USD 89.99
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  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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