Download or read book Jamming, Yielding, and Irreversible Deformation in Condensed Matter written by Carmen Miguel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-08-29 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection ot ten tutorial reviews by leading researchers in the field introduces and renews recent advances on irreversible deformation phenomena in solid state and soft condensed matter physics. The focus in applications is on amorphous materials, crystalline solids under stress and more generally, elastic manifolds driven by external processes. This book addresses in particular nonspecialists and graduate students wishing to enter the field.