Recent Developments in Micromechanics

This volume contains lectures presented at the Mini-Symposium on Micromechanics held in conjunction with the CSME Mechanical Engineering Forum 1990 at the University of Toronto, Canada. The purpose of this symposium was to discuss some recent developments in the micromechanics of materials and how advances in this field now relate to the solution of practical engineering problems. The topics are concerned with the fundamental aspects of the thermodynamics of structured solids, the micromechanical behaviour of alloys, the modelling of material behaviour on the basis of continuum theory and the new approach to the characterization of various materials and their responses to external agencies by the use of micromechanics.