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By Gérard A. Maugin, Raymonde Drouot, François Sidoroff

Contributed by means of world-renowned experts at the social gathering of Paul Germain's eightieth birthday, this designated publication displays the foundational works and the highbrow effect of this writer. It provides the world of recent thermomechanics with its notable wealth of purposes to the behaviour of fabrics, even if reliable or fluid. The thirty-one contributions stick to an easygoing autobiographical comic strip by way of Paul Germain, and spotlight the facility and richness of a methodological method of the phenomenology of many fabrics. This process combines harmoniously thermodynamics and continuum thought for you to offer exploitable, thermodynamically admissible types of a big number of behaviours and phenomena, together with these of diffusion, thermoelasticity, viscoplasticity, rest, hysteresis, wetting, shape-memory results, progress, section transitions, balance, fracture, shocks, machining of fabrics, microstructured solids, advanced fluids, and so forth.
in particular aimed toward graduate scholars, researchers, and engineers in mechanical engineering and fabrics technological know-how, this publication additionally provides the state-of-the-art in an energetic box of analysis and opens new horizons in different clinical fields, akin to utilized arithmetic and utilized physics, as a result highbrow pride and awesome potency supplied through the recommended technique.

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In tensorial notation greek indexes operate on variables defined in a reference microstructure (a concept that will be explained later), capital indexes operate on the initial configuration of the body, lowercase indexes on the actual configuration. 45 2 Cosserat continua We briefly recall the theory of Cosserat (or micropolar) continua. In particular we refer to results of [Germain, 1973], where the balance equations are obtained through the principle of virtual power, and in [Eringen, 1999], where a general theory of continua with microstructure is given.

Let us call the normal vector to the surface in the initial setting and the jump of a field a across the surface (supposedly a continuous function on the surface). Let us assume from now on that the grain boundary is a material surface: the discontinuity is supported by a fixed surface in the initial setting and does not change during the process. e. , 1999b]) Assumption gives the criterion of plastic evolution of the relative lattice rotation across the grain boundary: and the associated flow rule: where is the normal to at point 6 Conclusion We have given a Cosserat continuum model of a polycrystal, with constitutive equations which take into account classical elasticity and elastic curvatures of lattice, plasticity— through a multiple slip theory, and lattice curvature plasticity.

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