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Multiscale Modeling and Characterization of Elastic-Inelastic Behavior of Engineering Materials (2004)
edited by S. Ahzi, M. Cherkaoui, M.A. Khaleel, H.M. Zbib, M.A. Zikry, and B. LaMatina
ISBN 1-4020-1861-4. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands. 2004. Hardcover. 428 pages. $182.
This volume is the proceedings of the International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (IUTAM) Symposium held in Marrakech, Morocco, in October 2002. It is the 114th published since 1990 in the series, Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, edited by G.M.L. Gladwell of the University of Waterloo, Canada. The contributors come from 16 different countries, but the majority originated in the United States or France. Sponsors comprise the IUTAM, the Moroccan State Secretary for Scientific Research, the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in the United States, the European Research Office of the U.S. Army, and the universities of Cadi Ayyad (Morocco), Metz (France), and Louis Pasteur at Strasbourg (France).
The materials covered include metals and alloys, intermetallic compounds, polymers, and minerals in such forms as composites, thin films, foams, single crystals, granular packings, microelectromechanical systems, and nanoelectromechanical systems. The structural features considered include surfaces, grain boundaries, dislocations, voids, and second phases. The aspects discussed cover experimental techniques, deformation and failure mechanisms, dislocation modeling, microscopic-macroscopic averaging schemes, application to forming processes and phase transformations, localization and failure phenomena, and application of all such topics to engineering problems. Each paper is extensively referenced and illustrated and is accompanied by an abstract and set of key terms. The editors are to be commended for the excellent readability of the papers, despite the fact that the great majority of the contributors are not native-English speakers.
Although many references to more basic and tutorial works are included throughout the book, the character of the contributions, individually and collectively, is such that the volume will find audience only among specialists in the field, be they graduate students or experienced researchers. Although the quality of the book is generally high, it is not without its faults. First, the book appears over two years after the symposium was held! Next, it has no index. Finally, the work contains no glossary and consequently readers will have to look elsewhere for definition of such esoteric terms as bifurcation, von Mises stress, Powell method, Broyden-Fletcher-Goldfarb-Shanno method, and habit plane variant.
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