Mesomechanical Constitutive Modeling

"This carefully written book, based to a large degree on original and new research, is an essential source of information for anyone dealing with property modeling aspects in modern materials science. It can be warmly recommended for graduate students and researchers in the respective fields."
Ceramics - Silikaty, 2001

General Mesomechanical Model of Heterogeneous, Statistically Homogeneous Materials; Models of Materials with Statistically Isotropic Structure; Plasticity of Polycrystalline Metals; Time-Dependent Deformation; Fracturing; Shape Memory; Transversely Isotropic Materials.