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   COLLOQUIUM OF THE LABORATORY FOR COMPUTER DESIGN OF MATERIALS        
                   School of Computational Sciences	
                           (CSI 898-Sec 001) 
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              Introduction to Micro-Continuum Field Theory

                              James Lee
               Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 
                 George Washington Univ., Washington D.C.

         In a micro-continuum field theory (micropolar theory) the material
body is envisioned as a continuous collection of deformable point
particles. Each point particle has independent degrees of freedom for rigid
rotations in addition to the classical translation degrees of freedom of
the center of the point particle. Then the balance laws for mass,
microinertia, momenta(linear and angular), energy and entropy can be
derived. Constitutive relations for different classes of materials can be
formulated. The link to mesoscopic and microscopic physical models will be
discussed

                         Monday , April 2, 2001
                                  4:30 pm
                        Room 206, Science & Tech. I

Refreshments will be served at 4:15 PM.
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