Trends in Applications of Pure Mathematics to Mechanics

Eigenmodes of classical fluids in thermal equilibrium....Pages 1-24
Study of the inverse problem in random media using coherence theory....Pages 25-34
Half-space problems in the kinetic theory of gases....Pages 35-50
Virial coefficients from extended thermodynamics....Pages 51-55
On the transient behaviour of structured solids....Pages 56-64
On spectral analysis of non-selfadjoint operators in mechanics....Pages 65-69
On the photoelastic effect in a hemitropic dissipative dielectric....Pages 70-75
Space-time complexity in solid-state and statistical physics models....Pages 77-101
The topology of semidefects and solitons....Pages 102-113
Solitons and statistical thermodynamics....Pages 114-155
Transient motion of a solitary wave in elastic ferroelectrics....Pages 156-163
Driven kinks in shape-memory alloys....Pages 164-167
The long-time behaviour for perturbed wave-equations and related problems....Pages 168-194
Solitons and domain structure in elastic crystals with a microstructure....Pages 195-211
Phase diagram of one-dimensional electron-phonon and relativistic field theory models: Renormalization-group studies....Pages 212-230
The crooked road to effective stress....Pages 231-245
Gauge theories in mechanics....Pages 246-269
On the role of noether\'s theorem in the gauge theory of crystal defects....Pages 270-280
On gauge theory in defect mechanics....Pages 281-294
Recent progresses in the couette-taylor problem....Pages 295-311
On propagation of the transition layers in solutions to nonlinear partial differential equations....Pages 312-328
Constitutive models of polymer fluids: Towards a unified approach....Pages 329-348
Application of homogenization to the study of a suspension of force-free particles....Pages 349-353
On the Ericksen\'s conjecture....Pages 354-358
Linear thermodynamics and non-linear phenomena in fluids....Pages 359-363
Some remarks on the limit of viscoelastic fluids as the relaxation time tends to zero....Pages 364-369
Hydrodynamics of rigid magnetic suspensions....Pages 370-375
Non-Newtonian fluids of second grade - rheology, thermodynamics and extended thermodynamics....Pages 376-383
Molecular mechanisms of non-linear rubber elasticity....Pages 384-408
Some mathematical problems arising in modern developments in non-Newtonian fluid mechanics....Pages 409-421
Shear flows of non-linear visco-elastic fluids....Pages 422-433
Hyperbolic phenomena in the flow of viscoelastic liquids....Pages 434-456
Rheology of shape memory alloys....Pages 457-473
A unilateral model to the evaluation of the collapse load of masonry solids.....Pages 475-486
On the korn type inequality and problem of justification of refined theories for elastic plates....Pages 487-491
Stress functions and stress-function spaces for 3-dimensional elastostatics and dynamics....Pages 492-495
Dislocation dynamics in anisotropic thermoelastic-piezoelectric crystals....Pages 496-499
Some results of a boundary-layer theory for curved phase interfaces....Pages 500-512
Spectrum and periodicity for 0,1-functions....Pages 513-517
Criticality in nonlinear elliptic eigenvalue problems....Pages 518-523