Springer Recent Progress in the Mechanics of Defects

This book collects papers presented at ISDMM09, the fourth international meeting devoted to Mechanics of Material Forces. Coverage spans the mechanics of defects: cracks, dislocations, inclusions, precipitates, phase boundaries, and shape optimization. From the Back Cover The Symposium brought together researchers in the areas of the mechanics of defects, in a broad sense: cracks, dislocations, inclusions, precipitates, phase boundaries, and shape optimization. A select number of contributions based on the presentations given at the symposium are collected in this volume, which provides a reference source of the present state of development in the field of the mechanics of defects. Previously published in the International Journal of Fracture 166:1-2 (2010). The International Symposium on Defect and Material Mechanics (ISDMM09) was the fourth international meeting of a series, following the workshops held at Kaiserslautern (2003), Symi (2005) and Aussois (2007), and was held in the alpine city of Trento, Italy, from July 6 to 9, 2009. The Symposium brought together researchers in the areas of the mechanics of defects, in a broad sense: cracks, dislocations, inclusions, precipitates, phase boundaries, and shape optimization. A select number of contributions based on the presentations given at the symposium are collected in this volume, which provides a reference source of the present state of development in the field of the mechanics of defects. Previously published in the International Journal of Fracture 166:1-2 (2010).