THE MOTIVATION OF CONTINUUM CONCEPTS AND RELATIONS FROM DISCRETE CONSIDERATIONS

1 January 1983

journal article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics

Vol. 36 (2) , 163-187
https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmam/36.2.163

Abstract

Fundamental concepts and balance relations employed in continuum mechanics are motivated on the basis of atomistic considerations together with a naïve treatment of thermal motion.

Keywords

MOTIVATED
FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS
TREATMENT OF THERMAL
RELATIONS EMPLOYED
THERMAL MOTION
ATOMISTIC CONSIDERATIONS
VE TREATMENT
CONTINUUM MECHANICS
BALANCE RELATIONS

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