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Some thoughts on the material mechanics of materials.

Gérard A. Maugin (1999)

Extracta Mathematicae

This paper outlines recent developments and prospects in the application of the continuum mechanics expressed intrinsically on the material manifold itself. This includes applications to materially inhomogeneous materials, physical effects which, in this vision, manifest themselves as quasi-inhomogeneities, and the notion of thermodynamical driving force of the dissipative progress of singular point sets on the material manifold with special emphasis on fracture, shock waves and phase-transition...

Sufficient conditions for the validity of the Cauchy-Born rule close to SO ( n )

Sergio Conti, Georg Dolzmann, Bernd Kirchheim, Stefan Müller (2006)

Journal of the European Mathematical Society

The Cauchy–Born rule provides a crucial link between continuum theories of elasticity and the atomistic nature of matter. In its strongest form it says that application of affine displacement boundary conditions to a monatomic crystal will lead to an affine deformation of the whole crystal lattice. We give a general condition in arbitrary dimensions which ensures the validity of the Cauchy–Born rule for boundary deformations which are close to rigid motions. This generalizes results of Friesecke...

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