1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450217303321

Titolo

Mechanics and mathematics of crystals [[electronic resource] ] : selected papers of J. L. Ericksen / / editors Millard F. Beatty, Michael A. Hayes

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hackensack, NJ., : World Scientific, c2005

ISBN

1-281-88106-6

9786611881061

981-256-941-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (655 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BeattyMillard F

HayesMichael A

EricksenJ. L <1924-> (Jerald L.)

Disciplina

530.41

548/.7

Soggetti

Crystallography, Mathematical

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgment; J. L. Ericksen's Autobiography; 1. The Early Years; 2. World War II; 3. Back To School; 4. Comments On My Formal Education; 5. U. S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL); 6. Johns Hopkins University (JHU); 7. University of Minnesota (UMN); 8. Retirement; Publications of J. L. Ericksen; 1. Crystal Symmetry; On the Symmetry of Crystals*; NONLINEAR ELASTICITY OF DIATOMIC CRYSTALS; On the Symmetry of Deformable Crystals; CHANGES IN SYMMETRY IN ELASTIC CRYSTALS; Crystal Lattices and Sub-Lattices.; On Nonessential Descriptions of Crystal Multilattices

On Groups Occurring in the Theory of Crystal Multi-Lattices 2. Constitutive Theory; MULTI-VALUED STRAIN ENERGY FUNCTIONS FOR CRYSTALS; THE CAUCHY AND BORN HYPOTHESES FOR CRYSTALS; CONSTITUTIVE THEORY FOR SOME CONSTRAINED ELASTIC CRYSTALS; 11 SOME CONSTRAINED ELASTIC CRYSTALS; Equilibrium Theory for X-ray Observations of Crystals; A Minimization Problem in the X-ray Theory; Notes on the X-ray Theory; On Pitteri Neighborhoods Centered at Hexagonal Close-Packed Configurations; 3. Defects; VOLTERRA



DISLOCATIONS IN NONLINEARLY ELASTIC BODIES; TWINNING OF CRYSTALS (I)

4. Phase TransitionsSome Phase Transitions in Crystals; CONTINUOUS MARTENSITIC TRANSITIONS IN THERMOELASTIC SOLIDS; Weak Martensitic Transformations in Bravais Lattices; Bifurcation and Martensitic transformations in Bravais lattices*; LOCAL BIFURCATION THEORY FOR THERMOELASTIC BRAVAIS LATTICES; Thermal Expansion Involving Phase Transitions in Certain Thermoelastic Crystals; On the Possibility of Having Different Bravais Lattices Connected Thermodynamically; On the Theory of the - Phase Transition in Quartz

Sommario/riassunto

This book is a unique and comprehensive collection of pioneering contributions to the mechanics of crystals by J L Ericksen, a prominent and leading contributor to the study of the mechanics and mathematics of crystalline solids over the past 35 years.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787597803321

Autore

McGraw Seamus

Titolo

Betting the farm on a drought : stories from the front lines of climate change / / Seamus McGraw

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, Texas : , : University of Texas Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4773-0383-9

1-4773-0382-0

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Classificazione

NAT011000

Disciplina

363.738/740973

Soggetti

Climatic changes - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""1. Sundance""; ""2. Comfortable in Our Ignorance""; ""3. Kindergarten in a Fallout Shelter""; ""4. Preaching to the Choir""; ""5. Running from a Grizzly in Your Slippers""; ""6. The Other White Meat""; ""7. Flying by Wire""; ""8. Notes from the Ivory Clock Tower""; ""9. "I Never Met a Liberal Before"""; ""10. The Year the Creeks Stopped Freezing""; ""11. "It's What I Do"""; ""12. Penguins Tumbling Off an Ice



Sheet""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

"Climate change has become one of the most polarizing issues of our time. Extremists on the left regularly issue hyperbolic jeremiads about the impending destruction of the environment, while extremists on the right counter with crass, tortured denials. But out in the vast middle are ordinary people dealing with stronger storms and more intense droughts than they've ever known. This middle ground is the focus of Betting the Farm on a Drought, a lively, thought-provoking book that lays out the whole story of climate change--2014;the science, the math, and most importantly, the human stories of people fighting both the climate and their own deeply held beliefs to find creative solutions to a host of environmental challenges.. Seamus McGraw takes us on a trip along America's culturally fractured back roads and listens to farmers and ranchers and fishermen, many of them people who are not ideologically, politically, or in some cases even religiously inclined to believe in man-made global climate change. He shows us how they are already being affected and the risks they are already taking on a personal level to deal with extreme weather and its very real consequences for their livelihoods. McGraw also speaks to scientists and policymakers who are trying to harness that most renewable of American resources, a sense of hope and self-reliance that remains strong in the face of daunting challenges. By bringing these voices together, Betting the Farm on a Drought ultimately becomes a model for how we all might have a pragmatic, reasoned conversation about our changing climate."--

"This book takes a survey of climate change today: it lays out for the everyman what is happening, why it's happening, and what some people are doing about it. But rather than get mired in polemics or scientific jargon, as so many other books have done, Tempest tackles the issue through the people who are dealing with it--scientists, yes, but also fishermen and farmers who, even if they're not ready to concede global warming is a manmade problem, are adapting to a world of stronger storms and more intense droughts in creative ways. By telling such human stories, McGraw hopes to move readers beyond partisan divisions and into the much-needed common ground. Otherwise, as he says, "if the melting ice caps and rising oceans don't get us, we're all going to drown in the viscera of each other's gored oxen.""--