Crystals, defects and microstructures : modeling across scales / Rob Phillips.
By: Phillips, Rob (Robert Brooks) [author.]
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BookPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2001Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 780 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780511606236 (ebook).Other title: Crystals, Defects & Microstructures.Subject(s): Crystals | Crystals -- Defects | Crystal latticesAdditional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification: 548/.81 Online resources: Click here to access online Summary: Materials science has emerged as one of the central pillars of the modern physical sciences and engineering, and is now even beginning to claim a role in the biological sciences. A central tenet in the analysis of materials 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 graduate textbook, Rob Phillips examines the various methods that have been used in the study of crystals, defects and microstructures and that have made such computations possible. A second key theme is the presentation of recent efforts that have been developed to treat problems involving either multiple spatial or temporal scales simultaneously.
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Materials science has emerged as one of the central pillars of the modern physical sciences and engineering, and is now even beginning to claim a role in the biological sciences. A central tenet in the analysis of materials 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 graduate textbook, Rob Phillips examines the various methods that have been used in the study of crystals, defects and microstructures and that have made such computations possible. A second key theme is the presentation of recent efforts that have been developed to treat problems involving either multiple spatial or temporal scales simultaneously.
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