This book on micromechanics explores both traditional aspects and the advances made in the last
10-15 years. The viewpoint it assumes is that the rapidly developing field of micromechanics
apart from being of fundamental scientific importance is motivated by materials science
applications.The introductory chapter provides the necessary background together with some less
traditional material examining e.g. approximate elastic symmetries Rice's technique of
internal variables and multipole expansions. The remainder of the book is divided into the
following parts: (A) classic results which consist of Rift Valley Energy (RVE) Hill's results
Eshelby's results for ellipsoidal inhomogeneities and approximate schemes for the effective
properties (B) results aimed at overcoming these limitations such as volumes smaller than RVE
quantitative characterization of irregular microstructures non-ellipsoidal inhomogeneities
and cross-property connections (C) local fields and effects of interactions on them and
lastly (D) - the largest section - which explores applications to eight classes of materials
that illustrate how to apply the micromechanics methodology to specific materials.
