Constitutive Laws and Microstructure Proceedings of the Seminar Wissenschaftskolleg — Institute for Advanced Study Berlin, February 23–24, 1987

A special survey of the extensive field of Constitutive Laws is given in 11 lectures, divided into three parts: Thermodynamics of Materials, Stochastic Processes and Material Behaviour, Constitutive Relations for Simple Fluids and Microphysics of Solids. The collection of lectures comprehends a novel survey of thermodynamical constitutive theories, and contributions to material theories with after-effects including experiments, stochastic constitutive laws, molecular dynamics for simulating material properties, electrodynamical constitutive properties, and thermodynamic and microphysical modelling of polymers. The selected lectures emphasize the microstructural aspect of constitutive laws, and this collection presents a new facet of constitutive laws.

I. Thermodynamics of Materials.- 1. Thermodynamical Constitutive Laws — Outlines.- 2. Thermodynamical Considerations on Plastic and Viscoplastic Behaviour of Solid Bodies.- 3. Metal Plasticity as a Problem of Thermodynamics.- 4. Description and Simulation of Shape Memory.- II. Stochastic Processes and Material Behaviour.- 1. Markov-Chains as Models for the Inelastic Behaviour of Metals.- 2. Stochastic Analysis of Structural Changes in Solids.- III. Constitutive Relations for Simple Fluids and Micro-physics of Solids.- 1. Molecular Dynamics: Test of Microscopic Models for the Material Properties of Matter.- 2. Localization of Waves due to Disorder in Solids.- 3. Electromagnetic Control of Material Properties in Multipole Elastic Composites.- 4. Thermodynamic Modelling of Polymers in Solution.- 5. A Microphysical Model of Crystallizing Polymers.- IV. Discussion.- Discussion.- List of Participants.