Nonlinear Elasticity and Hysteresis

Preface

DYNAMIC PRESSURE AND TEMPERATURE RESPONSES OF POROUS SEDIMENTARY ROCKS BY SIMULTANEOUS RESONANT ULTRASOUND SPECTROSCOPY AND NEUTRON TIME-OF-FLIGHT MEASUREMENTS
Introduction and Background
Macroscopic Measurements
Motivation for Neutron Scattering Measurements
SMARTS: Simultaneous Stress-Strain and Neutron Diffraction Measurements
HIPPO: Simultaneous Step-Temperature Modulus/Sound Speed and Neutron Diffraction Measurements
Discussion and Conclusions

ADSORPTION, CAVITATION, AND ELASTICITY IN MESOPOROUS MATERIALS
Experimental Evidence of Collective Effects During Evaporation
Adsorption-Induced Strain
Thermodynamics of the Solid-Fluid Interface
Stress Effect on the Adsorption Process
Cavitation in Metastable Fluids Confined to Linear Mesopores

THEORETICAL MODELING OF FLUID-SOLID COUPLING IN POROUS MATERIALS
Introduction
Sytems and Models
Problems
Mechanical Response to Applied External Forces
Fluid in the Skeleton
Fluid in the Pore Space
Summary and Conclusion

INFLUENCE OF DAMAGE AND MOISTURE ON THE NONLINEAR HYSTERETIC BEHAVIOR OF QUASI-BRITTLE MATERIALS
Nonlinear, Hysteretic, and Damage Behavior of Quasi-Brittle Materials
Macroscopic Damage Model for Quasi-Brittle Materials
Preisach-Mayergoyz (PM) Model for Nonlinear Hysteretic Elastic Behavior
Coupling the Macroscopic Damage Model and Damage-Dependent PM Model: Algorithmic Aspects
Moisture Dependence of Hysteretic and Damage Behavior of Quasi-Brittle Materials

MODELING THE POROMECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF MICROPOROUS AND MESOPOROUS SOLIDS: APPLICATION TO COAL
Modeling of Saturated Porous Media
Application to Coal Seams
Conclusions and Perspectives

A THEORETICAL APPROACH TO THE COUPLED FLUID-SOLID PHYSICAL RESPONSE OF POROUS AND CELLULAR MATERIALS: DYNAMICS
Introduction
Theoretical Approach
Closure Models
Demonstration Simulations
Concluding Remarks

SWELLING OF WOOD TISSUE: INTERACTIONS AT THE CELLULAR SCALE
Introduction
Description of Wood
Absorption of Moisture in Wood
Swelling of Wood Tissue - Investigations by Phase Contrast
Pharametric Investigation of Swelling of Honeycombs - Investigation by Hydroelastic Modeling
Beyond Recoverable Swelling and Shrinkage: Moisture-Induced Shape Memory
Discussion

HYDRO-ACTUATED PLANT DEVICES
Introduction
General Aspects of Plant Material - Water Interactions
Systems Based on Inner Cell Pressure - Living Turgorized Cells
Systems Based on Water Uptake of Cell Walls
Systems Based on a Differential Swelling of Cell Wall Layer
Biomimetic Potential

Index

Dr H. Alicia Kim is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath, UK and an affiliate at the Earth and Environmental Sciences Division, Los Alamos National Laboratory. She received her PhD degree in Aeronautical Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia in 2001. Her research expertise includes numerical methods of finite element formulation and their applications in nonlinear hysteretic materials and optimisation of aerospace structures. She has authored more than 12 international publications.

Professor Robert Guyer received his PhD degree from Cornell University in 1966. He is the author of more than 200 refereed journal articles. His area of expertise includes transport in disordered systems, quantum crystals, nonlinear elasticity, granular media as well as time reversal methods in geophysics. In addition to his career at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst) he has had appointments at Research Center Julich, Harvard, U of Toronto, U of Florida, Cornell, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and in several industrial research labs.

A. H. Kim, Univ. of Bath, Dept. of Mech. Eng., UK; R. A. Guyer, Univ. of Massachuessets, Los Alamos Nat. Lab, USA