Crystals, defects and microstructures : modeling across scales / / Rob Phillips [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910449765203321
• Autore: Phillips Rob (Robert Brooks), <1960->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2001
• ISBN: 1-107-12113-2; 0-511-04108-X; 1-280-43271-3; 9786610432714; 0-511-17624-4; 0-511-15700-2; 0-511-32948-2; 0-511-60623-0; 0-511-04653-7
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxvi, 780 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 548/.81
• Soggetti: Crystals; Crystals - Defects; Crystal lattices
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 757-770) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on Units, Scales and Conventions; ONE Idealizing Material Response; TWO Continuum Mechanics Revisited; THREE Quantum and Statistical Mechanics Revisited; FOUR Energetic Description of Cohesion in Solids; FIVE Thermal and Elastic Properties of Crystals; SIX Structural Energies and Phase Diagrams; SEVEN Point Defects in Solids; EIGHT Line Defects in Solids; NINE Wall Defects in Solids; TEN Microstructure and its Evolution; ELEVEN Points, Lines and Walls: Defect Interactions and Material Response; TWELVE Bridging Scales: Effective Theory ConstructionTHIRTEEN Universality and Specificity in Materials; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.