Nonlinear Mesoscopic Elasticity

PART IChapter 1 INTRODUCTIONChapter 2 MICROSCOPIC/MACRSCOPIC FORMULATION OF THE TRADITIONAL THEORYChapter 3 CONSEQUENCES OF THE TRADITIONAL THEORY OF NONLINEAR ELASTICITYChapter 4 MESOSCOPIC ELASTIC ELEMENTS AND MACROSCOPIC EQUATIONS OF STATEPART IIChapter 5 AUXILIARY FIELDSChapter 6 HYSTERETIC ELASTIC ELEMENTSChapter 7 THE DYNAMICS OF ELASTIC SYSTEMS; FAST AND SLOWChapter 8 ISSUES OF DATA MODELING AND ANALYSISChapter 9 ELASTIC STATE SPECTROSCOPY AND ELASTIC TOMOGRAPHIESPART IIIChapter 10 QUASI-STATIC MEASUREMENTSChapter 11 DYNAMIC MEASUREMENTSChapter 12 FIELD OBSERVATIONSChapter 13 NONLINEAR NONDESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION AND IMAGING

Both authors are pioneers in the recent developments on theoretical and experimental approaches in the field of nonlinear elasiticity and its application in NDT.

They are both internationally recognized and very active in the international research community.

From a review: "Guyer has the broadest awareness of new theoretical methods in this field of anyone I have met, and Johnson has either done, supervised, or collaborated on a large fraction of the experiments reported here."(from a review)

Dr. Paul A. Johnson is Senior Technical Staff Member of the Geophysics Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory and Chief of Project of the Nonlinear Elasticity Group. Studied Geophysics at the University of Arizona and Geology at the University of New Mexico. Got his Ph.Din Solid Mechanics from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. Publications in several journals, among others Materials World, Physics today, Nature, and Science (in review).

Prof. Robert A. Guyer graduated in Physics at the New Mexico State University and got a PhD at Cornell University. Full Professor of Physics at the University of Massachusetts. His recent work on the dynamical behaviour of granular materials has been published in established journals like Phys.Rev.Lett., Phys.Rev. B, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, and Geophysical Research Letters.

"I am recommending that you accept the book project for publication.""The research on nonlinear elasticity and dynamics in solids, both theoretical and experimental, is now mature enough to write up a first handbook on this exciting topic."