This ebook proposes a brand new basic atmosphere for theories of our bodies with microstructure after they are defined in the scheme of the con tinuum: in addition to the standard fields of classical thermomechanics (dis placement, tension, temperature, etc.) a few new fields input the image (order parameters, microstress, etc.). The publication can be utilized in a semester direction for college students who've already lectures at the classical thought of continua and is meant as an advent to big subject matters: fabrics with voids, liquid crystals, meromorphic con tinua. in reality, the content material is largely that of a chain of lectures given in 1986 on the Scuola Estiva di Fisica Matematica in Ravello (Italy). i want to thank the clinical Committee of the Gruppo di Fisica Matematica of the Italian nationwide Council of analysis (CNR) for the invitation to educate within the university. I additionally thank the Committee for arithmetic of CNR and the nationwide technological know-how starting place: they've got supported my examine over decades and given me the chance to review the themes provided during this ebook, particularly via a USA-Italy application initiated via Professor Clifford A. Truesdell. My curiosity within the box dates again to a interval of collaboration with Paolo Podio-Guidugli and a few of the elemental principles got here up in the course of our discussions.
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