Rob Phillips, Phillips Rob

Crystals, Defects and Microstructures

Modeling Across Scales

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Materials science has emerged as one of the central pillars of the modern physical sciences and engineering, and is now even beginning to claim a role in the biological sciences. A central tenet in the analysis of materials is the structure-property paradigm, which proposes a direct connection between the geometric structures within a material and its properties. The increasing power of high-speed computation has had a major impact on theoretical materials science and has permitted the systematic examination of this connection between structure and properties. In this graduate textbook, Rob Phillips examines the various methods that have been used in the study of crystals, defects and microstructures and that have made such computations possible. A second key theme is the presentation of recent efforts that have been developed to treat problems involving either multiple spatial or temporal scales simultaneously.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 808
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 47mm
• Gewicht: 1549g
• ISBN-13: 9780521790055
• ISBN-10: 0521790050
• Artikelnr.: 22617289

Autorenporträt

Rob is an award-winning outdoor writer and author of the bestselling and critically acclaimed Luke McCain mystery series set in the wilderness of Eastern Washington and featuring a fish & wildlife officer and his yellow Lab, Jack.Rob and his wife, Terri, live in Yakima, Washington with their very spoiled Labrador retriever.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Thinking About the Material World: 1. Idealizing material response
2. Continuum mechanics revisited
3. Quantum and statistical mechanics revisited
Part II. Energetics of Crystalline Solids: 4. Energetic description of cohesion in solids
5. Thermal and elastic properties of crystals
6. Structural energies and phase diagrams
Part III. Geometric Structures in Solids: Defects and Microstructure: 7. Point defects in solids
8. Line defects in solids
9. Wall defects in solids
10. Microstructure and its evolution
Part IV. Facing the Multiscale Challenge of Real Material Behavior: 11. Points, lines and walls: defect interactions and material response
12. Bridging scales: effective theory construction
13. Universality and specificity in materials.

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Part I. Thinking About the Material World: 1. Idealizing material response; 2. Continuum mechanics revisited; 3. Quantum and statistical mechanics revisited; Part II. Energetics of Crystalline Solids: 4. Energetic description of cohesion in solids; 5. Thermal and elastic properties of crystals; 6. Structural energies and phase diagrams; Part III. Geometric Structures in Solids: Defects and Microstructure: 7. Point defects in solids; 8. Line defects in solids; 9. Wall defects in solids; 10. Microstructure and its evolution; Part IV. Facing the Multiscale Challenge of Real Material Behavior: 11. Points, lines and walls: defect interactions and material response; 12. Bridging scales: effective theory construction; 13. Universality and specificity in materials.

Rezensionen

'It covers an extremely wide range of topics including good case studies of new systems such as nanotubes. It succeeds in convening modelling ideas from both a physics and materials science point of view. ... This book's distinct feature, which makes it attractive as a general reference book, is the inclusion of a lot of the author's personal opinions, and makes it stand out from most classroom or course textbooks. To support this, the style of writing is informal, easy to read, and sometimes fun.' Dr Wei Sha, Materials World