A gauge theory of dislocations and disclinations

Publication date: 1983

Published in: Lecture Notes in Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

variational principle; defects; gauge group; three-dimensional continuum; Peach-Koehler forces; 3-parameter rotation group; 3-parameter translation group; direct analogy to Yang-Mills theory; dynamics of dislocations and disclinations; forces acting on defects; Lagrangian invariant under inhomogeneous action of entire group; momentum-energy tensor whose divergence vanishes; set of field equations; special case of stationary dislocations; stationary action functional respect to field variables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

81T60: Supersymmetric field theories in quantum mechanics

74M25: Micromechanics of solids

74-02: Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to mechanics of deformable solids

74A60: Micromechanical theories

74A99: Generalities, axiomatics, foundations of continuum mechanics of solids

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