Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Continua: A Collection of Papers Dedicated to B.D. Coleman on His Sixtieth Birthday

The Homogeneous Field Approximation of Classical Thermodynamics.- On the Stored Energy Functions of Hyperelastic Materials with Internal Constraints.- The Bianchi Identities in an Explicit Form.- On the Vorticity Numbers of Monotonous Motions.- A Limiting “Viscosity” Approach to the Riemann Problem for Materials Exhibiting Change of Phase.- One Dimensional Infinite-horizon Variational Problems arising in Continuum Mechanics.- Admissible Wave Fans in Nonlinear Hyperbolic Systems.- Weak Martensitic Transformations in Bravais Lattices.- Necessary Conditions at the Boundary for Minimizers in Finite Elasticity.- Phase Transitions of Elastic Solid Materials.- Drops of Nematic Liquid Crystals.- Stability of Deformation of an Elastic Layer.- Conditions for Mechanical Self-Annealing in Motions of Elastic-Plastic Oscillators.- On Saint-Venant’s Principle in Finite Anti-Plane Shear: An Energy Approach.- Mixture Invariance and its Applications.- Interactions in General Continua with Microstructure.- Surface Interaction Potentials in Elasticity.- Some Kinematical Results Concerning Steady Flows and Extensional Flows.- Material Symmetry and Crystals.- A Mathematical Theory of the Guillotine.- Global Properties of Buckled States of Plates that can Suffer Thickness Changes.- Regular Precessions in a Central Newtonian Field of Forces.- A Mechanical Theory for Crystallization of a Rigid Solid in a Liquid Melt; Melting-Freezing Waves.- On Edge Interactions and Surface Tension.- On a Statistical-Kinetic Model for Generalized Continua.- Memory Effects and Homogenization.- On Formation of Singularities in One-Dimensional Nonlinear Thermoelasticity.- Published Works of Bernard D. Coleman.- Places of First Publication.