Nonlinear mechanics of crystals (Q606880)

The book is a mathematical introduction to the thermodynamics of nonlinear mechanics of crystals and generally to continuum mechanics. It is based on a significant literature, though some names are completely missing. The book contains 10 chapters and five appendices. The first chapter is devoted for the presentation of the book. Here some topics concerning crystalline solids, namely point, line and surface defects, are addressed explicitly. Chapter 2 provides mathematical background used subsequently throughout the text. The author discusses here mainly curvilinear coordinates and related definitions from differential geometry and tensor algebra on manifolds. The divergence theorem and the Stokes theorem are included. Chapter 3 is devoted to the crystalline body. Kinematics of multiplicative inelasticity is considered. Then the physical sources of non-recoverable deformations are treated. These include dislocation-based large deformation plasticity of single and polycrystalline materials, generation and motion of point defects, porosity evolution, and sources of residual elastic deformation of lattice emerging from multiscale consideration. Chapter 4 features general, traditional thermodynamic relationships and balance laws governing nonlinear behavior of continuous bodies. The mass, momentum, energy balances and thermodynamic potentials are presented, as well as dissipation inequality. Chapter 5 considers the elasticity of defect-free crystals. Constitutive functions and thermodynamic relations for crystals displaying a hyperelastic response are presented for crystals with temperature changes. A finite elasticity is then developed, followed by a discussion of second-grade hyperelasticity. Chapter 6 examines elastoplastic materials. The multiplicative decomposition of deformation gradient in lattice-altering thermoelastic and the lattice-preserving plastic deformations are presented. The stored energy of cold working is considered together with the reduction of the finite deformation theory to geometrically linear elastoplasticity. Chapter 7 addresses large deformations kinematics and internal forces by combining the nonlinear kinematics description with multiscale averaging concepts. Two methods are considered for qualifying the average residual elastic deformation gradient: continuum nonlinear elasticity and discrete lattice statics. Chapter 8 extends thermoelasticity, residual elastic volume changes, plastic slip, and mechanical twining in anisotropic single crystals to large deformations. Dislocation glide and deformation twinning are treated as dissipative mechanisms, and energy storage mechanisms are described via internal state variables. Chapter 9 broadens the constitutive description of elastoplastic materials to encompass a number of more general modes of inelastic deformation. The particular versions are then developed to address the physics of isotropic void growth, pore compaction, and residual lattice deformation from defects. Finally, chapter 10 depicts the geometrically nonlinear response of dielectric crystalline solids. The mechanical, thermal and quasi-electrostatic behaviors, and their couplings, are considered. A thermodynamic treatment addresses dielectric, piezoelectric, pyroelectric and electrostrictive phenomena. Appendix A is devoted to crystal symmetries and elastic constants, appendix B to lattice statics and dynamics, appendix C to discrete defects in linear elasticity, appendix D to kinematics derivations, and appendix E to Si Units and fundamental constants. The book ends with references which are very extensive, though not complete. The book seems to be a very good work on the subject, and can be recommended to all those interested in the mechanics of crystals.