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Record Nr.

UNINA9910476810203321

Titolo

People, Places and Policy : knowing contemporary Wales through new localities / / edited by Martin Jones, Scott Orford, Victoria Macfarlane

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Florence : , : Taylor & Francis, , 2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 158 pages)

Collana

Regions and cities

Disciplina

330.9429

Soggetti

Wales Economic conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introducing wiserd localities / Martin Jones, Victoria Macfarlane & Scott Orford -- Reframing the devolved policy landscape in wales / Ian Stafford -- Wales : a statistical perspective / Sam Jones, Scott Orford & Gary Higgs -- The heads of the valleys / Stephen Burgess & Kate Moles -- Locating the mid-wales economy : the central and west coast locality / Jesse Heley, Laura Jones & Suzie Watkin -- Economic inactivity and unemployment rates / Unitary Authority -- New localities in action and reaction / Martin Jones, Scott Orford, Jesse Heley & Victoria Macfarlane.

Sommario/riassunto

Set within the context of UK devolution and constitutional change, People, Places and Policy offers important and interesting insights into 'place-making' and 'locality-making' in contemporary Wales. Combining policy research with policy-maker and stakeholder interviews at various spatial scales (local, regional, national), it examines the historical processes and working practices that have produced the complex political geography of Wales. This book looks at the economic, social and political geographies of Wales, which in the context of devolution and public service governance are hotly debated. It offers a novel 'new localities' theoretical framework for capturing the dynamics of locality-making, to go beyond the obsession with boundaries and coterminous geographies expressed by policy-makers and politicians. Three localities - Heads of the Valleys (north of Cardiff), central and west coast regions (Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and the former district of Montgomeryshire in Powys) and the A55 corridor (from Wrexham to Holyhead) - are discussed in detail to illustrate this



and also reveal the geographical tensions of devolution in contemporary Wales. This book is an original statement on the making of contemporary Wales from the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) researchers. It deploys a novel 'new localities' theoretical framework and innovative mapping techniques to represent spatial patterns in data. This allows the timely uncovering of both unbounded and fuzzy relational policy geographies, and the more bounded administrative concerns, which come together to produce and reproduce over time Wales' regional geography.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797033103321

Autore

Negahban Mehrdad

Titolo

The mechanical and thermodynamical theory of plasticity / / by Mehrdad Negahban

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boca Raton, FL : , : CRC Press, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , 2012

ISBN

0-429-10014-0

1-4665-6321-4

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (776 p.)

Disciplina

531/.385

Soggetti

Plasticity

Continuum mechanics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; Preface; 1. Plasticity in the 1-D bar; 2. Vectors and tensors; 3. Describing motion, deformation, and temperature; 4. Elastic, plastic, and thermal deformation; 5. Traction, stress, and heat flux; 6. Balance laws and jump conditions; 7. Infinitesimal plasticity; 8. Solutions for infinitesimal plasticity; 9. First-gradient thermomechanical materials; 10. Elastic and thermoelastic solids; 11. Finite deformation mechanical theory of plasticity; 12. Thermoplastic solids; 13. Viscoelastic solids; 14. Rate-dependent plasticity

15. Crystal plasticityA. Representation of functions; B. Representation for fourth-order constants; C. Basic equations



Sommario/riassunto

Born out of 15 years of courses and lectures on continuum mechanics, nonlinear mechanics, continuum thermodynamics, viscoelasticity, plasticity, crystal plasticity, and thermodynamic plasticity, The Mechanical and Thermodynamical Theory of Plasticity represents one of the most extensive and in-depth treatises on the mechanical and thermodynamical aspects of plastic and visicoplastic flow. Suitable for student readers and experts alike, it offers a clear and comprehensive presentation of multi-dimensional continuum thermodynamics to both aid in initial understanding and introduce and explore advanced topics.