Solid Mechanics I (ENT 242/3): Electronic Books

This volume provides a critical assessment of the current state-of-the-art in nanomechanics, with particular application to mechanical properties and structural integrity associated with MEMS, NEMS, nanomanufacturing, microelectronics, nanotechnology, biotechnology, and microsystems. It contains articles by leading international experts in these fields. A special workshop summary identifies major gaps in present knowledge, barriers to applications, and critical research areas for rapid development of enabling technologies. This book is an excellent reference book for both academic and industrial researchers working in the fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology, engineering, nanotribology and mechanics, materials science and engineering, computer science, and information technology. It will also be of interest to those pursuing research in NEMS, MEMS, mesomanufacturing, sensors, actuators, controllers, micromotors, and other microsystems in aerospace, defense, and military systems.

In mechanical engineering and structural analysis there is a significant gap between the material models currently used by engineers for industry applications and those already available in research laboratories. This is especially apparent with the huge progress of computational possibilities and the corresponding dissemination of numerical tools in engineering practice, which essentially deliver linear solutions. Future improvements of design and life assessment methods necessarily involve non linear solutions for inelastic responses, in plasticity or viscoplasticity, as well as damage and fracture analyses. The  dissemination of knowledge can be improved by software developments, data base completion and generalization, but also by information and training. With such a perspective "Non-Linear Mechanics of Materials" proposes a knowledge actualization, in order to better understand and use recent material constitutive and damage modeling methods in the context of structural analysis or multiscale material microstructure computations.