Crystals, Defects and Microstructures: Modeling Across Scales

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 806 pages
• Published by: Cambridge University Press
• Edition: 1st Edition March 23, 2001
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0521790050
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0521790055
• Book Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 1.4 inches
• Weighs: 3.9 pounds

Product Review
"This discussion is an exercise in consciousness-raising, which many readers will find rather thought-provoking I would recommend it to anyone wishing to get both a broad overview of the intersection of theoretical condensed matter physics with modern materials science, and some good pointers toward future research directionsa nicely-written, self-contained course on material physics." Physics Today

"the writing style makes reading most enjoyable. The interesting aspect of the style is the author's readiness to stand back from the details to communicate to the reader an important message." Optics & Photonics News --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Description
A central tenet of materials analysis is the structure-property paradigm, which proposes a direct connection between the geometric structures within a material and its properties. The increasing power of high-speed computation has had a major impact on theoretical materials science and has permitted the systematic examination of this connection between structure and properties. In this textbook, Rob Phillips looks at various methods for studying crystals, defects, and microstructures, techniques that have made such computations possible. He also presents recent efforts to treat problems involving either multiple spatial or temporal scales simultaneously. Detailed case studies illustrate general principles as well as their applications to current research problems. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Crystals, Defects and Microstructures: Modeling Across Scales (Paperback) The publication of this book is very timely since it appears right before the happening of the first "International Conference on Multiscale Materials Model(l)ing", which has been held in June 2002 at the Queen Mary University of London. But it is the subtitle (Modeling Across Scales), not the title, that conveys you what the book's content is about. In other words, the author engages himself in the (difficult) task of showing you how real materials can be modeled (or thought of) by mean of a multiscale approach bridging the atomistic to the macroscopic structure & behavior. As you can well imagine, this is an outstanding task! The book is organized in four parts and it contains 13 chapters: Part I: Thinking about the Material World 1. Idealizing Material Response 2. Continuum Mechanics Revisited 3. Quantum and Statistical Mechanics Revisited Part II: Energetics of Crystalline Solids 4. Energetic Description of Crystalline Solids 5. Thermal and Elastic Properties of Crystals 6. Structural Energies and Phase Diagrams Part III: Geometric Structures in Solids: Defects and Microstructures 7. Point Defects in Solids 8. Line Defects in Solids 9. Wall Defects in Solids 10. Microstructure and its Evolution Part IV: Facing the Multiscale Challenge in Real Material Behavior 11. Points, Lines and Walls: Defect Interactions and Material Response 12. Bridging Scales: Effective Theory Construction 13. Universality and Specificity in Materials Considering the difficulty of the subject and how it has been presented throughout the book, the clarity of language and the good quality of both graphs and figures, this book deserves five stars.