Configurational Mechanics Proceedings of the Symposium on Configurational Mechanics Symposium Held Within the 5th Euromech Solid Mechanics Conference, 17-22 August 2003, Thessa

This book comprises papers that were presented at the Symposium on Configurational Mechanics, during the 5th EUROMECH Soil Mechanics Conference in Thessaloniki in August 2003. Configurational (or material) mechanics -in contrast to Newtonian mechanics in Euclidean space- concerns any sort of change or "motion" in the material configuration. This framework provides a novel and unifying view on otherwise diverse disciplines like fracture mechanics, phase transitions, plasticity and dislocation theory. In addition, configurational mechanics can be used in computations because it provides a fruitful interpretation of the field equations in the discretized space. This volume contains eleven contributions from specialists from around Europe Articles concern both theoretical and computational mechanics, electroplasticity, magnetoelasticity, elastoplasticity as well as granular, multiphase and micropolar media.Kalpakides, V. K. is the author of 'Configurational Mechanics Proceedings of the Symposium on Configurational Mechanics Symposium Held Within the 5th Euromech Solid Mechanics Conference, 17-22 August 2003, Thessa', published 2004 under ISBN 9789058096678 and ISBN 905809667X.