Differential geometry of defects in condensed systems of particles with only translational mobility

DOI10.1016/0020-7225(81)90074-4zbMath0468.73046WikidataQ115368198 ScholiaQ115368198MaRDI QIDQ1156524

S. H. Smith

Publication date: 1981

Published in: International Journal of Engineering Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0020-7225(81)90074-4

zbMATH Keywords

identification of dislocation with Cartan's torsion; identification of extrinsic point defects with inhomogeneity in Einstein's equations; identification of intrinsic point defects with nonmetric part of affine connection

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

74R99: Fracture and damage

82D25: Statistical mechanics of crystals

74C99: Plastic materials, materials of stress-rate and internal-variable type

53B50: Applications of local differential geometry to the sciences

53A15: Affine differential geometry