Introduction to the thermodynamics of solids

"Professor Ericksen has drawn on his experience in research on solids to devise a series of lectures for graduate students from various departments at the University of Minnesota. The aim is to introduce and illustrate uses of various important ideas with analysis that can be done using elementary mathematics."--BOOK JACKET. "Often, important applications involve using the thermodynamic theory of equilibrium. In part, this involves a strategy for designing experiments to determine equations of state. Simple strategies are discussed for thermoelastic bars and an ideal gas-solid mixture. A simple strategy can fail when instabilities are encountered. Illustrative examples of thermodynamic stability theory include rudimentary analysis of cold-drawing in polymers, Martensitic transformations in plates, instabilities in rubber balloons and sheets, peeling tapes, breaking bars, buckling of beams, and instabilities produced by electromagnetic fields in liquid crystals."--BOOK JACKET. "Nonequilibrium theory is illustrated by heat conduction in rigid and deformable bars, including a fairly common way of using the Clausium-Duhem inequality to get thermodynamic restrictions on constitutive equ