Advances in Applied Mechanics (eBook)

Cover 1
Contents 6
Contributors 8
Preface 10
Chapter 1. Multifield Theories in Mechanics of Solids 14
I. Introduction 15
II. Configurations and Balance of Interactions 22
III. Elastic Materials with Substructure 39
IV. Balance in Presence of Discontinuity Surfaces 46
V. Constitutive Restrictions 51
VI. Evolution of Defects and Interfaces in Materials with Substructure 55
VII. Crack Propagation in Materials with Substructure 66
VIII. Latent Substructures 81
IX. Examples of Specific Cases 86
Acknowledgments 101
References 101
Chapter 2. Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Nanoscale Interfacial Phenomena in Fluids 108
I. Introduction 109
II. Molecular Dynamics Simulation Techniques 110
III. Liquid–Vapor Interfaces 116
IV. Liquid–Liquid Interfaces 135
V. Liquid–Solid Interfaces 143
VI. Three-Phase Systems 149
VII. Other Interfacial Phenomena 152
VIII. Concluding Remarks 153
Acknowledgments 154
References 154
Chapter 3. Fracture of Piezoelectric Ceramics 160
I. Introduction 161
II. Basic Equations 165
III. Two-Dimensional Electroelastic Problems and Stroh's Formalism 175
IV. Piezoelectric Dislocation and Green's Function 199
V. Conductive Cracks 212
VI. Interface Cracks 222
VII. Three-Dimensional Electroelastic Problems 233
VIII. Nonlinear Approaches 249
IX. Experimental Observations and Failure Criteria 268
X. Concluding Remarks 287
Acknowledgments 292
References 292
Chapter 4. On Theoretical Modeling of Aquatic and Aerial Animal Locomotion 304
I. Introduction 305
II. Subdivisions of Hydrodynamic Theories for Aquatic and Aerial Locomotion 309
III. Resistive Theory of Aquatic Locomotion 313
IV. Classical Slender-Body Theory of Fish Locomotion 314
V. A Unified Approach to Nonlinear Theory of Flexible Lifting-Surface Locomotion 327
VI. A Unified Nonlinear Theory of Two-Dimensional Flexible Lifting-Surface Locomotion 329
VII. On Experimental Differentiation between Thrust and Drag in Fish Locomotion 346
VIII. Scale Effects in Energetics of Aquatic Locomotion 351
IX. Conclusion and Outlook 360
Acknowledgments 363
References 363
Author Index 368
Subject Index 376