Elements of Multifield Theories for Complex Materials

Preface.- Introduction and Historical Notes.- A Sample Case: A Two-Phase One-Dimensional Material.- The General Description of Complex Materials (The Metamodel): Morphological Descriptors, Substructural Interactions, Invariance and Balance in the Bulk.- Basic Thermodynamical Issues.- Elements of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Formalism.- Special Cases of Complex Materials: A First Set.- Special Geometries.- Interactions and Balance in Presence of Material Discontinuity Surfaces and Junctions.- Thermodynamics of Interfaces and Junctions.- Mutations.- Other Special Cases: A Second Set.- Transport.- Procedural Meso-Structures.- References.- Index.