Foundations of Micropolar Mechanics

Download or read book Foundations of Micropolar Mechanics written by Victor A. Eremeyev and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-07-25 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents foundations of the micropolar continuum mechanics including a short but comprehensive introduction of stress and strain measures, derivation of motion equations and discussion of the difference between Cosserat and classical (Cauchy) continua, and the discussion of more specific problems related to the constitutive modeling, i.e. constitutive inequalities, symmetry groups, acceleration waves, etc.