This book provides a concise introduction to soft matter modelling. It offers an up-to-date review of continuum mechanical description of soft and biological materials from the basics to the latest scientific materials. It includes multi-physics descriptions, such as chemo-, thermo-, electro- mechanical coupling.
It derives from a graduate course at Technion that has been established in recent years. It presents original explanations for some standard materials and features elaborated examples on all topics throughout the text. PowerPoint lecture notes can be provided to instructors.
Author(s): Konstantin Volokh (auth.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: XI, 155
Tags: Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics; Biomaterials
Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Tensors....Pages 1-19
Kinematics....Pages 21-35
Balance Laws....Pages 37-52
Isotropic Elasticity....Pages 53-75
Anisotropic Elasticity....Pages 77-90
Incremental Equations....Pages 91-99
Thermoelasticity....Pages 101-111
Chemoelasticity....Pages 113-123
Electroelasticity....Pages 125-136
Viscoelasticity....Pages 137-152
Back Matter....Pages 153-155
