Phase Change in Mechanics

From the reviews: "These lecture notes present some predictive theories of phenomena involving phase changes with applications in engineering, within the framework of continuum thermo-mechanics. The author investigates some solid-liquid phase changes, volume and surface damage, and phase changes involving temperature discontinuities. ... this is a valuable contribution to the phase change theory in continuum mechanics, excluding polar and non-local constitutive behaviour, and it is recommendable to engineers and researchers interested in the field." (M. Cengiz Dokmeci, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1253, 2013)

• 1 Introduction.- 2 The State Quantities and the Quantities Describing the Evolution.- 3 The Basic Laws of Mechanics.- 4 Solid-liquid Phase Change.- 5 Shape Memory Alloys.- 6 Damage.- 7 Contact with Adhesion.- 8 Damage of Solids Glued on One Another. Coupling of Volume and Surface Damages.- 9 Phase Change with Discontinuity of Temperature: Warm Water in Contact with Cold Ice.- 10 Phase Change and Collisions.- 11 Collisions of Deformable Bodies and Phase Change.- 12 Phase Change Depending on a State Quantity: Liquid-vapor Phase Change.- 13 Clouds: Mixture of Air, Vapor and Liquid Water.- 14 Conclusion.