Download or read book Mechanics of Materials and Interfaces written by Chandrakant S. Desai and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2000-12-20 with total page 711 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The disturbed state concept (DSC) is a unified, constitutive modelling approach for engineering materials that allows for elastic, plastic, and creep strains, microcracking and fracturing, stiffening or healing, all within a single, hierarchical framework. Its capabilities go well beyond other available material models yet lead to significant simpl