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A Short Introduction to Continuum Micromechanics

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Mechanics of Microstructured Materials

Part of the book series: International Centre for Mechanical Sciences ((CISM,volume 464))

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Basic issues in continuum mechanical modeling of microstructured materials are discussed and a number of physically based modeling approaches are presented, among them mean field and bounding methods as well as unit cell and embedding models. In addition, important aspects of multi-scale modeling strategies are addressed and a short introduction to the treatment of damage at the constituent level within micromechanical models is given.

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