IUTAM Symposium on scaling in solid mechanics: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Cardiff, UK, 25-29 June, 2007

This volume constitutes the Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium on 'Scaling inSolid Mechanics', held in Cardiff from 25th to 29th June 2007. The Symposium was convened to address and place on record topical issues in theoretical, experimental and computational aspects of scaling approaches to solid mechanics and related fields. Scaling is a rapidly expanding area of research having multidisciplinaryapplications. The expertise represented in the Symposium was accordingly very wide, and many of the world's greatest authorities in their respective fields participated. Scaling methods apply wherever there is similarity across many scales or a need to bridge different scales, e.g. the nanoscale and macroscale. The emphasis in the Symposium was upon fundamental issues such as: mathematical foundations of scaling methods based on transformations and connections between multi-scale approaches and transformations. The Symposium remained focussed on fundamental research issues of practical significance. The topics considered included damage accumulation, growth of fatigue cracks, development of patterns of flaws in the earth's core and in ice, abrasiveness of rough surfaces, and so on. The Symposium showed that scaling methods cannot be reduced solely to dimensional analysis and fractal approaches. Modern scaling approaches consist of a great diversity of techniques. IUTAM Symposia represent the state of the art in their field, with contributions from leading scientists

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-9032-5
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 340
• Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés