Trovalusci P. (Ed.) Materials with Internal Structure: Multiscale and Multifield Modeling and Simulation

Springer International Publishing, Switzerland, 2016. – 135 p. – ISBN: 3319214934The book presents a series of concise papers by researchers specialized in various fields of continuum and computational mechanics and of material science. The focus is on principles and strategies for multiscale modeling and simulation of complex heterogeneous materials, with periodic or random microstructure, subjected to various types of mechanical, thermal, chemical loadings and environmental effects. A wide overview of complex behavior of materials (plasticity, damage, fracture, growth, etc.) is provided. Among various approaches, attention is given to advanced non-classical continua modeling which, provided by constitutive characterization for the internal and external actions (in particular boundary conditions), is a very powerful frame for the gross mechanical description of complex material behaviors, able to circumvent the restrictions of classical coarse–graining multiscale approaches.Scale Transition Rules Applied to Crystal Plasticity
A Numerical Assessment of Phase-Field Models for Fracture
On the Effective Properties of Elastic Materials and Structures at the Micro- and Nano-Scale Considering Various Models of Surface Elasticity
Microstructure Sensitive Fatigue Crack Nucleation in Titanium Alloys Using Accelerated Crystal Plasticity FE Simulations
Advances in Multiscale Modeling of Granular Materials
Tensor-Valued Random Fields in Continuum Physics
Designing Particulate Composites: The Effect of Variability of Filler Properties and Filler Spatial Distribution
Discrete to Scale-Dependent Continua for Complex Materials: A Generalized Voigt Approach Using the Virtual Power Equivalence