Microstructural Randomness And Scaling In Mechanics of Materials

Ostoja-Starzewski (mechanical science and engineering, U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) examines stochastic models and methods used in the mechanics of random media and illustrates these in a variety of applications. Coverage includes a review of several tools used in stochastic mechanism, a review of periodic and disordered planar lattices, classic planar and micropolar elasticity, the passage from a microstructure to an effective micropolar continuum, and problems of microstructural randomness and scaling--both representative and statistical volume elements (RVEs/SVEs) and micromechanically based stochastic finite elements (SFEs), thermomechanics with internal variables, and waves in random media. Suitable as a resource for academics and researchers and for use in graduate-level courses on micromechanics, mechanics of random media, and probabilistic mechanics. Annotation c2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)