Continuous Media with Microstructure, 2010

This book is a collection of papers dedicated to Professor Dr. Krzysztof Wilman ´ski onthe occasionof his 70thbirthday. The bookcontains25 cont- butions of his friends and colleagues. He met the invited authors at di?erent stagesofhisscienti?ccareerofalmost50yearssothatthecontributionscover a wide range of ?elds stemming from continuum mechanics. This happened at numerous universities and research institutes where he both taught and did his excellent research work, e. g. • the University of Lod ´ ´ z, Poland, where he studied Civil Engineering and did his diploma work onElastic-plastic thermal stresses in a thin ring and where he graduated with his PhD-work in the ?eld of Continuous Models of Discrete Systems, • theInstituteofFundamentalTechnologicalResearchofthePolishAcademy of Sciences in Warsaw, where he got his habilitation in the ?eld Non- cal Continuum Mechanics and where he was the head of the Research Group Continuum Thermodynamics. He collaborated with W. Fiszdon, L. Turski, Cz. Wozniak, H. Zorski and others on the topics axiomatic and kinetic foundations of continuumthermodynamics, theory of mixtures, phase transformations in solids, • theJohnsHopkinsUniversityinBaltimore,US,wherehe workedtogether, e. g. with C. Truesdell, J. Ericksen and W. Williams, on axiomatic and kinetic foundations of continuum thermodynamics, • the College of Engineering, University of Baghdad, Iraq, where he was a Visiting Professor and taught many courses, • theUniversityofPaderbornandtheTechnicalUniversityBerlin,Germany, wherehe had an Alexander von Humboldt Stipend andcontractsasa V- iting Professor (works on a model of crystallizing polymers, on a nonlocal thermodynamicmodelofplasmasandelectrolytesandonmartensiticphase transformations), • the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (Institute for Advanced Studies), G- many,whereheworkedtogetherwithe. g. I.

SCIENTIFIC LIFE OF PROF. DR. KRZYSZTOF WILMA?SKI.- Curriculum Vitae of Prof. Dr. K.Wilma?ski.- Publications of Prof. Dr. K. Wilma?ski.- THERMODYNAMIC MODELING.- On Pore Fluid Pressure and Effective Solid Stress in the Mixture Theory of Porous Media.- An Extrapolation of Thermodynamics to Evolutionary Genetics.- Some Recent Results on Multi-temperature Mixture of Fluids.- EXTENSIONS OF CONSTITUTIVE LAWS.- Hypocontinua.- On Constitutive Choices for Smectic Elastomers.- A Note on the Representation of Cosserat Rotation.- Material Uniformity and the Concept of the Stress Space.- Coupled Nonlinear Thermoelastic Equations for an Orthotropic Beam with Thermal and Viscous Dissipation.- On the Mathematical Modelling of Functionally Graded Composites with a Determistinic Microstructure.- MICRO- AND NANOSCALE MECHANICS.- On the Derivation of Biological Tissue Models from Kinetic Models of Multicellular Growing Systems.- Instabilites in Arch Shaped MEMS.- Towards Poroelasticity of Fractal Materials.- The Maxwell Problem (Mathematical Aspects).- Continuum-Molecular Modeling of Nanostructured Materials.- WAVES.- Linear Wave Propagation in Unsaturated Rocks and Soils.- Explicit Solution Formulas for the Acoustic Diffraction Problem with a Slit in a Hard and a Soft Screen.- On the Stability of the Inversion of Measured Seismic Wave Velocities to Estimate Porosity in Fluid-Saturated Porous Media.- On Two Insufficiently Exploited Conservation Laws in Continuum Mechanics: Canonical Momentum and Action.- Waves and Dislocations.- PHASE TRANSITIONS.- Liquid-Solid Phase Transitions in a Deformable Container.- Composite Beams with Embedded Shape Memory Alloy.- Microstructures in the Ti50Ni50???x Pd x Alloys’ Cubic-to-Orthorhombic Phase Transformation: A Proposed Energy Landscape.-GRANULAR MEDIA.- Analysis of Shear Banding with a Hypoplastic Constitutive Model for a Dry and Cohesionless Granular Material.- Principal Axes and Values of the Dispersion Coefficient in the 2D Axially Symmetric Porous Medium.- The Importance of Sand in Earth Sciences.

Discusses the extension of classical continuum models In honor to Professor Wilmanski