Stability of Materials: 355 (NATO Science Series B) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0306453118 ISBN 13: 9780306453113

Publisher: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers, 1996

Synopsis

Engineering materials with desirable physical and technological properties requires understanding and predictive capability of materials behavior under varying external conditions, such as temperature and pressure. This immediately brings one face to face with the fundamental difficulty of establishing a connection between materials behavior at a microscopic level, where understanding is to be sought, and macroscopic behavior which needs to be predicted. Bridging the corresponding gap in length scales that separates the ends of this spectrum has been a goal intensely pursued by theoretical physicists, experimentalists, and metallurgists alike. Traditionally, the search for methods to bridge the length scale gap and to gain the needed predictive capability of materials properties has been conducted largely on a trial and error basis, guided by the skill of the metallurgist, large volumes of experimental data, and often ad hoc semi phenomenological models. This situation has persisted almost to this day, and it is only recently that significant changes have begun to take place. These changes have been brought about by a number of developments, some of long standing, others of more recent vintage.

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Synopsis

The June-July 1994 NATO ASI reflected the most recent developments in the field of stability of materials, namely the development and refinement of computational methods for the study of electronic structure; experimental techniques that allow increasingly deeper probes into the microstructure of matter; and computer simulation methods such as Mont

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publishers
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306453118
• ISBN 13: 9780306453113
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 742
• Editor: Gonis A., Kudrnovsky Josef, Turchi Patrice E.A.