The authors of the book dedicated this book to Gérard A. Maugin, an exceptional French engineering scientist and philosopher. Maugin’s achievements in the fields of Physical Sciences and Engineering embrace relativistic continuum mechanics, micro magnetism, electrodynamics of continua, thermo mechanics, surface waves and nonlinear waves in continua, lattice dynamics, material equations and biomechanical applications.

• 1 The memory of Gérard Maugin. Over 30 leading scientists present their contribution.- 2 The topics of contributions employing often non-standard methods.- 3 Micromechanical basics to engineering applications, focusing on new models and applications of well-known models.- 4 Micro-macro aspects, computational efforts, possibilities to identify the constitutive equations.

The authors of the book dedicated this book to Gérard A. Maugin, an exceptional French engineering scientist and philosopher. Maugin’s achievements in the fields of Physical Sciences and Engineering embrace relativistic continuum mechanics, micro magnetism, electrodynamics of continua, thermo mechanics, surface waves and nonlinear waves in continua, lattice dynamics, material equations and biomechanical applications.

• 1 The memory of Gérard Maugin. Over 30 leading scientists present their contribution.- 2 The topics of contributions employing often non-standard methods.- 3 Micromechanical basics to engineering applications, focusing on new models and applications of well-known models.- 4 Micro-macro aspects, computational efforts, possibilities to identify the constitutive equations.

The authors of the book dedicated this book to Gérard A. Maugin, an exceptional French engineering scientist and philosopher. Maugin’s achievements in the fields of Physical Sciences and Engineering embrace relativistic continuum mechanics, micro magnetism, electrodynamics of continua, thermo mechanics, surface waves and nonlinear waves in continua, lattice dynamics, material equations and biomechanical applications.

• 1 The memory of Gérard Maugin. Over 30 leading scientists present their contribution.- 2 The topics of contributions employing often non-standard methods.- 3 Micromechanical basics to engineering applications, focusing on new models and applications of well-known models.- 4 Micro-macro aspects, computational efforts, possibilities to identify the constitutive equations.