George C. Sih & Moussa Nait-Abdelaziz 
Particle and Continuum Aspects of Mesomechanics 
Mesomechanics 2007

This title brings together a variety of papers presented at the 9th
annual Meso meeting in 2007. The topics selected for Meso 2007 are
designed to illustrate the relation of thresholds to multiscaling:

* Flow through capillary tubes in contrast to pipes

* Laminar and turbulent flow transition

* Heat convection of thin wires in contrast to cylinders

* Electrical conductance of macro- and nano-circuits

* Rubbery and glassy polymers

* Single- and poly-crystal behavior

* Strength of wires and round cylindrical bars

* Uni-axial and multi-axial material: linear and non-linear
response

* Thin and thick plate behavior

* Brittle and ductile fracture

* Small and large crack growth behavior

* Low and high temperature effects

* Local and global material property characteristics

* Small and large bodies: size and time effects

* Specimen and structure

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section I: Physical Mechanisms of Multiple Damage.

Section II: Physical, Mesosopical and Multiscale Models.

Section III: Film, Layer and Interface.

Section IV: Crack Models and Solutions.

Section V: Nanomaterials.

Section VI: Electronic and Composite Materials.

Section VII: Brittle Fracture.

Section VIII: Failure, Creep and Fracture.

Section IX: Thermal, Mechanical and Environmental Effects.

Section X: Processing and Fabrication.

Section XI: Fatigue and Crack Growth.

Section XII: Vibration, Ultrasonic and Impact.

Section XIII: Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics.

Section XIV: Micrromechanical Damage and Effects.

Index of Authors.

Über den Autor

George C. Sih, Office of Theoretical and Applied Fracture
Mechanics, East China University of Science and Technology

Moussa Nait-Abdelaziz, Lille University of Sciences and
Technology, Polytech Lille, France

Toan Vu-Khanh, Universite du Quebec, Ecole de technologie
superieure