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Record Nr.

UNINA9910556897103321

Autore

Steinmann Paul

Titolo

Spatial and Material Forces in Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics : A Dissipation-Consistent Approach / / by Paul Steinmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022

ISBN

3-030-89070-8

Edizione

[1st ed. 2022.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (418 pages)

Collana

Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, , 2214-7764 ; ; 272

Disciplina

531

531.7

Soggetti

Mechanics, Applied

Solids

Continuum mechanics

Solid Mechanics

Continuum Mechanics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1 Introduction -- 2 Kinematics in Bulk Volumes -- 3 Kinematics on Dimensionally Reduced Smooth Manifolds -- 4 Kinematics at Singular Sets -- 5 Generic Balances -- 6 Kinematical 'Balances'* -- 7 Mechanical Balances -- 8 Consequences of Mechanical Balances -- 9 Virtual Work -- 10 Variational Setting -- 11 Thermo-Dynamical Balances -- 12 Consequences of Thermo-Dynamical Balances -- 13 Computational Setting.

Sommario/riassunto

This monograph details spatial and material vistas on non-linear continuum mechanics in a dissipation-consistent approach. Thereby, the spatial vista renders the common approach to nonlinear continuum mechanics and corresponding spatial forces, whereas the material vista elaborates on configurational mechanics and corresponding material or rather configurational forces. Fundamental to configurational mechanics is the concept of force. In analytical mechanics, force is a derived object that is power conjugate to changes of generalised coordinates. For a continuum body, these are typically the spatial positions of its continuum points. However, if in agreement with the



second law, continuum points, e.g. on the boundary, may also change their material positions. Configurational forces are then power conjugate to these configurational changes. A paradigm is a crack tip, i.e. a singular part of the boundary changing its position during crack propagation, with the related configurational force, typically the J-integral, driving its evolution, thereby consuming power, typically expressed as the energy release rate. Taken together, configurational mechanics is an unconventional branch of continuum physics rationalising and unifying the tendency of a continuum body to change its material configuration. It is thus the ideal formulation to tackle sophisticated problems in continuum defect mechanics. Configurational mechanics is entirely free of restrictions regarding geometrical and constitutive nonlinearities and offers an accompanying versatile computational approach to continuum defect mechanics. In this monograph, I present a detailed summary account of my approach towards configurational mechanics, thereby fostering my view that configurational forces are indeed dissipation-consistent to configurational changes.