Crystals, Defects and Microstructures: Modeling Across Scales
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 2/22/2001
EAN 9780521790055, ISBN10: 0521790050
Hardcover, 808 pages, 24.4 x 17 x 4.3 cm
Language: English
Materials science has emerged as one of the central pillars of the modern physical sciences and engineering, and is now even beginning to claim a role in the biological sciences. A central tenet in the analysis of materials is the structure-property paradigm, which proposes a direct connection between the geometric structures within a material and its properties. The increasing power of high-speed computation has had a major impact on theoretical materials science and has permitted the systematic examination of this connection between structure and properties. In this graduate textbook, Rob Phillips examines the various methods that have been used in the study of crystals, defects and microstructures and that have made such computations possible. A second key theme is the presentation of recent efforts that have been developed to treat problems involving either multiple spatial or temporal scales simultaneously.
Part I. Thinking About the Material World
1. Idealizing material response
2. Continuum mechanics revisited
3. Quantum and statistical mechanics revisited
Part II. Energetics of Crystalline Solids
4. Energetic description of cohesion in solids
5. Thermal and elastic properties of crystals
6. Structural energies and phase diagrams
Part III. Geometric Structures in Solids
Defects and Microstructure
7. Point defects in solids
8. Line defects in solids
9. Wall defects in solids
10. Microstructure and its evolution
Part IV. Facing the Multiscale Challenge of Real Material Behavior
11. Points, lines and walls
defect interactions and material response
12. Bridging scales
effective theory construction
13. Universality and specificity in materials.