Mechanics Down Under

1. Material Instabilities in Elastic and Plastic Solids: The Perturbative Approach
Davide Bigoni

2. Modelling Strain Localization by Cohesive (Overlapping) Zones in Tension (Compression): Brittleness Size Effects and Scaling in Material Properties
Alberto Carpinteri, Marco Paggi

3. Multi-scale Analysis of Polycristalline Metals and Composites
J. -L. Chaboche

4. Micro-architectured Solids: From Blast Resistant Structures to Morphing Wings
Norman A. Fleck

5. Plasto-Mechanics of Large Deformation under Impact Loading
N. K. Gupta

6. Onset of Oscillatory Thermocapillary Convection
W. R. Hu, Z. M. Tang

7. Instabilities of Flows through Deformable Tubes and Channels
O. E. Jensen

8. Surface Bubbles in Micro- and Nanofluidics
Bram Borkent, Detlef Lohse

9. Bridged and Cohesive Crack Models for Fracture in Composite Materials
Roberta Massabò

10. Relaxation to Steady Vortical Flows – And Knots in the Quark-Gluon Plasma
H. K. Moffatt

11. Instabilities across the Scales: Simple Models for Shear Banding, Plate Subduction and Mantle Convection in Geodynamics
Hans-Bernd Mühlhaus, Louis Moresi, Matt Davies, Klaus Gottschald, Alina Hale

12. From Dry Granular Flows to Submarine Avalanches
Mickael Pailha, Maxime Nicolas, Olivier Pouliquen

13. Failure of Rocks in the Laboratory and in the Earth
J. W. Rudnicki

14. Modeling of Bone Failure by Cohesive Zone Models
Thomas Siegmund, Matthew R. Allen, David B. Burr

15. The Aerodynamics of Wind Turbines
J. N. Sørensen, R. Mikkelsen, N. Troldborg, V. L. Okulov, W. Z. Shen

16. Cohesive-Zone Modeling of Adhesive Joints
M. D. Thouless

Keywords: Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Materials Science, general, Classical Continuum Physics, Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics