Front Cover; Advances in Applied Mechanics, Volume 36; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. Nanomechanics of Defects in Solids; I. Introduction; II. Atomistic Models of Material Behavior; III. Patched Atomistic/Continuum Models; IV. Lattice Statics; V. Cauchy-Born Theory of Crystal Elasticity; VI. Quasicontinuum Theory; VII. Applications of the Quasicontinuum Method; VIII. Concluding Remarks; Acknowledgments; References; Chapter 2. Modeling Microstructure Evolution in Engineering Materials; I. Introduction; II. Microscopic Constitutive Laws.

III. Thermodynamic Variational PrincipleIV. Numerical Models; V. Rayleigh-Ritz Analyses; VI. Structure of Constitutive Laws for the Deformation of Engineering Materials; VII. Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 3. Stochastic Damage Evolution and Failure in Fiber-Reinforced Composites; I. Introduction; II. Preliminary Issues; III. Single-Fiber Composite; IV. Multifiber Composites: Global Load Sharing; V. Multifiber Composites: Local Load Sharing; VI. Future Directions; Acknowledgments; References; Author Index; Subject Index.