Transition from mechanical equilibrium to thermal equilibrium in a chain of unstable springs

DOI10.1016/S0375-9601(02)01658-4MaRDI QIDQ1854579zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Toshio Yoshikawa

Publication date 14 January 2003

Published in Physics Letters. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

force-elongationtemperature-force relations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

(n)-body problems (70F10) Classical equilibrium statistical mechanics (general) (82B05)

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• Dynamics of chains with non-monotone stress-strain relations. I: Model and numerical experiments
• Dynamics of chains with non-monotone stress-strain relations. II: Nonlinear waves and waves of phase transition
• Mechanics of a discrete chain with bi-stable elements
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