Iutam Symposia

The Cosserat Continuum and its Generalizations.- Generalized Mechanics of Continuous Media.- Mechanics of Micromorphic Continua.- The Cosserat Surface.- A General Theory of Rods.- The Basic Affine Connection in a Cosserat Continuum.- On the Thermodynamic Potential of Cosserat Continua.- Applications of Theories of Generalized Cosserat Continua to the Dynamics of Composite Materials.- Determination of Elastic Constants of a Structured Material.- A Note on Gunther's Analysis of Couple Stress.- Note on the Statics and Stability of Polar Hyperelastic Materials.- The Characteristic Length of a Polar Fluid.- Couple-Stresses and Singular Stress Concentrations in Elastic Solids.- On the Effect of Stress Concentration in Cosserat Continua.- Stress Functions and Loading Singularities for the Infinitely Extended, Linear Elastic-Isotropic Cosserat Continuum.- On the Action of Concentrated Loads in the Case of a Cosserat Continuum.- Dislocated and Oriented Media.- The Generalized Dual Continuum in Elasticity and Dislocation Theory.- Dislocations in the Generalized Elastic Cosserat Continuum.- Some Considerations on the Mechanics of Granular Materials.- A comment on the communication by Dr, M. Satake On the Influence of Couple-Stresses on the Distribution of Velocities in the Flow of Polar Fluids.- On Plastic Strain.- Continuous Distributions of Dislocations.- Physical Foundations of Dislocation Theory.- Geometry and Continuum Mechanics.- On the Two Main Currents of the Geometrical Theory of Imperfect Continua.- A Dynamic Theory of Continual Dislocations.- Inhomogeneities in Materially Uniform Simple Bodies.- On the Geometric Structure of Simple Bodies, a Mathematical Foundation for the Theory of Continuous Distributions of Dislocations.- Differential Geometry of a Nonlinear Continuum Theory of Dislocations.- Statistical Theory of Dislocations.- Some Remarks about High Velocity Dislocations.- Continuum Theory of Dislocations and Plasticity.- Continuous Distributions of Dislocations in Hyperelastic Materials of Grade 2.- On the Dual Yielding and Related Problems.- The Plane Boundary in Anisotropic Elasticity.- Line Sources of Internal Stresses with zero Burgers Vector.- On the Screw Dislocation in Finite Elasticity.- Lattice Structure and Continuum Mechanics.- Some Considerations of the Relation between Solid State Physics and Generalized Continuum Mechanics.- Theories of Elastic Continua and Crystal Lattice Theories.- The Theory of Elastic Media with Microstructure and the Theory of Dislocations.- Interrelations between Various Branches of Continuum Mechanics.- Properties of Dislocations in Iron-The Importance of the Discrete Nature of the Crystal Lattice.- Applications to other Branches of Physics.- A Modernization of MacCullagh's Ether Theory.- Space-Time as Generalized Cosserat Continuum.- The Cosserat Continuum with Electronic Spin.- Disclinations and the Cosserat-Continuum with Incompatible Rotations.