Table of Contents
Chapter One: Mechanics of Material Mutations
2 Material morphologies and deformations
4 The relative power in the case of bulk mutations
5 Balance equations from the second law of thermodynamics: the case of hardening plasticity
6 Parameterized families of reference shapes: a tool for describing crack nucleation
7 Notes and further perspectives
Chapter Two: Dynamic Discrete Dislocation Plasticity
2 Discrete dislocation dynamics
3 Dynamic effects in the motion of dislocations
4 Dislocation dynamics and causality
5 The dynamic fields of dislocations
6 Aspects of the implementation of the dynamic fields of dislocations
7 The moving fields of dislocations
Chapter Three: The Hertz-Type and Adhesive Contact Problems for Depth-Sensing Indentation
2 The hertz-type contact problems
3 Indentation methods in materials science
4 Self-similarity of contact problems
5 Axisymmetric adhesive contact problems
6 Experimental evaluation of work of adhesion
Chapter Four: Multi Field Simulation of Fracture
4 Numerical Approaches to Fracturing