Front Cover

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Mechanical and Thermal Behaviour of Metallic Materials

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Copyright Page

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Table of Contents

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Introduction to the Course

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Chapter 1. The thermoelastic effect. Statistical mechanics and thermodynamics of the elastic deformation

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Chapter 2. Yield and plasticity

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Chapter 3. The fracture of engineering materials

pp.：  93 – 114

Chapter 4. An introduction to fracture mechanics

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Chapter 5. Elastic-plastic fracture mechanics

pp.：  137 – 150

Chapter 6. Fatigue at notches

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Chapter 7. Fatigue under multiaxial stress-strain conditions

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Chapter 8. The short-crack problem

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Chapter 10. Subscripts

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Chapter 9. Elastic-plastic fracture mechanics of short fatigue cracks

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Chapter 11. Plastic deformation and failure of crystalline materials at high temperature

pp.：  205 – 234

Chapter 12. Dynamic fracture of structural steels

pp.：  234 – 247

Chapter 13. On fatigue of glass

pp.：  247 – 259

Chapter 14. Increasing role of material's engineer and technologist in the automotive industry

pp.：  259 – 281

Chapter 15. Synergetics—An outline

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Chapter 16. Application of linear-response theory to anelasticity and viscoelasticity

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Chapter 17. Concentration fluctuations in a finite medium: application to the power spectrum of resistance fluctuations

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Chapter 18. Fluctuations and mechanical relaxation

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Chapter 19. Laser techniques for investigating instabilities and phase transitions.

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Chapter 20. Thermoacoustic instabilities in strained solids: a synergetic approach

pp.：  449 – 466

Chapter 21. Compositional instabilities

pp.：  466 – 489

Chapter 22. Electrical noise in metals: origin and application to defect kinetics

pp.：  489 – 518