Non-linearity and Breakdown in Soft Condensed Matter: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Calcutta, India, 1-9 December 1993: v. 437 (Lecture Notes in Physics) - Hardcover

9783540586524: Non-linearity and Breakdown in Soft Condensed Matter: Proceedings of a Workshop Held at Calcutta, India, 1-9 December 1993: v. 437 (Lecture Notes in Physics)

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ISBN 10: 3540586520 ISBN 13: 9783540586524

Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K, 1994

There have been considerable advances in recent times in understanding many common material processes that are of practical importance, such as nonlinear response, fracture, breakdown, earthquakes, packing, and granular flow, that are of immense practical importance. This has been mainly due to new applications of statistical physics, including percolation theory, fractal concepts and self-organized criticality. This collection of articles brings together research in those closely allied fields. It deals with problems in material science involving random geometries and nonlinearity at a mesoscopic scale, where local disorder and nonlinearity influence the global behaviour of cracks, for example, and problems where randomness in time evolution is as crucial as the geometry itself.

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There have been considerable advances in recent times in understanding many common material processes that are of practical importance, such as nonlinear response, fracture, breakdown, earthquakes, packing and granular flow. This has been mainly due to new applications of statistical physics, including percolation theory, fractal concepts and self-organized criticality. This collection of articles brings together research in those closely allied fields. It deals with problems in materials science involving random geometries and nonlinearity at a mesoscopic scale, and problems where randomness in time evolution is as crucial as the geometry itself.

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