Mechanics Down Under : Proceedings of the 22nd International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, held in Adelaide, Australia, 24 - 29 August, 2008. - Denier, James P.; Finn, Matthew D.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013)
Sectional Lectures and Mini-symposium Papers -- Material Instabilities in Elastic and Plastic Solids: The Perturbative Approach -- Modelling Strain Localization by Cohesive (Overlapping) Zones in Tension (Compression): Brittleness Size Effects and Scaling in Material Properties -- Multi-scale Analysis of Polycristalline Metals and Composites -- Micro-architectured Solids: From Blast Resistant Structures to Morphing Wings -- Plasto-Mechanics of Large Deformation under Impact Loading -- Onset of Oscillatory Thermocapillary Convection -- Instabilities of Flows through Deformable Tubes and Channels -- Surface Bubbles in Micro-and Nanofluidics -- CXXII Contents -- Bridged and Cohesive Crack Models for Fracture in Composite Materials -- Relaxation to Steady Vortical Flows - and Knots in the Quark-Gluon Plasma -- Instabilities across the Scales: Simple Models for Shear Banding, Plate Subduction and Mantle Convection in Geodynamics -- From Dry Granular Flows to Submarine Avalanches -- Failure of Rocks in the Laboratory and in the Earth -- Modeling of Bone Failure by Cohesive Zone Models -- The Aerodynamics of Wind Turbines -- Cohesive-Zone Modeling of Adhesive Joints -- Author Index.
Keywords: Mechanical engineering; Materials science; Continuum physics; Applied mathematics; Engineering mathematics; Mechanics; Mechanics, Applied; Mechanical Engineering; Materials Science, general; Classical and Continuum Physics; Mathematical and Computational Engineering; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics