Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Rate-Independent Systems : Theory and Application, Hardback Book

Rate-Independent Systems : Theory and Application Hardback

Part of the Applied Mathematical Sciences series

Hardback

Description

This monograph provides both an introduction to and a thorough exposition of the theory of rate-independent systems, which the authors have been working on with a lot of collaborators over 15 years.

The focus is mostly on fully rate-independent systems, first on an abstract level either with or even without a linear structure, discussing various concepts of solutions with full mathematical rigor.

Then, usefulness of the abstract concepts is demonstrated on the level of various applications primarily in continuum mechanics of solids, including suitable approximation strategies with guaranteed numerical stability and convergence.

Particular applications concern inelastic processes such as plasticity, damage, phase transformations, or adhesive-type contacts both at small strains and at finite strains.

A few other physical systems, e.g. magnetic or ferroelectric materials, and couplings to rate-dependent thermodynamic models are considered as well.

Selected applications are accompaniedby numerical simulations illustrating both the models and the efficiency of computational algorithms.  In this book, the mathematical framework for a rigorous mathematical treatment of "rate-independent systems" is presented in a comprehensive form for the first time.

Researchers and graduate students in applied mathematics, engineering, and computational physics will find this timely and well written book useful.

Information

Other Formats

Save 13%

£109.99

£95.65

Item not Available
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information