Crystals, defects and microstructures : modeling across scales

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Notes on Units, Scales and Conventions; ONE Idealizing Material Response; TWO Continuum Mechanics Revisited; THREE Quantum and Statistical Mechanics Revisited; FOUR Energetic Description of Cohesion in Solids; FIVE Thermal and Elastic Properties of Crystals; SIX Structural Energies and Phase Diagrams; SEVEN Point Defects in Solids; EIGHT Line Defects in Solids; NINE Wall Defects in Solids; TEN Microstructure and its Evolution; ELEVEN Points, Lines and Walls: Defect Interactions and Material Response.
Explores one of the central tenets, the structure-property paradigm, which proposes a direct connection between the geometric structures within a material and its properties. Ideal for graduate students and researchers.