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Book SynopsisPhysical Mechanics of Porous Solids addresses the physics and mechanics of deformable porous materials, whose porous space is filled by one or several fluid mixtures interacting with the solid matrix.
Table of ContentsForeword
1 The Strange World of Porous Solids
2 Fluid Mixtures
2.1 Chemical potential
2.2 Gibbs-Duhem Equality
2.3 Ideal Mixtures
2.4 Regular Solutions
3 The Deformable Porous Solid
3.1 Strain
3.2 Stress
3.3 Strain Work
3.4 From Solids to Porous Solids
4 The Saturated Poroelastic Solid
4.1 The Poroelastic Solid
4.2 Filling the Porous Solid
4.3 The Thermoporoelastic Solid
4.4 The Poroviscoelastic Solid
5 Fluid Transport and Deformation
5.1 Transport Laws
5.2 Coupling the Deformation and the Flow
5.3 Consolidation of a Soil Layer
6 Surface Energy and Capillarity
6.1 Physics and Mechanics of Interfaces
6.2 Capillarity in Porous Solids
6.3 Transport in Unsaturated Porous Solids
7 The Unsaturated Poroelastic Solid
7.1 Interface Stress as a Pre-Stress
7.2 Energy Balance for the Unsaturated Porous Solid
7.3 The Linear Unsaturated Poroelastic Solid
7.4 Extending Linear Unsaturated Poroelasticity
8 Uncon.ned Phase Transition
8.1 Chemical Potential and Phase Transition
8.2 Liquid-Vapor Transition
8.3 Liquid-Solid Transition
8.4 Gas bubble formation
8.5 Surface Energy and Phase Transition
9 Phase Transition in Porous Solids
9.1 In-Pore Phase Transition
9.2 Kinetics and Mechanics of Drying
9.3 Mechanics of Con.ned Crystallization
10 The Poroplastic Solid
10.1 Basic Concepts of Plasticity
10.2 From Plasticity to Poroplasticity
10.3 From material to structure
11 By Way of Conclusion
