Mechanical Behaviour of Engineering Materials

9 Transition to the Dynamic Behaviour of Engineering Materials.- 10 Plastic Instability and Localization Effects.- 11 Elastic Wave Propagation.- 12 Dynamic Plastic Behaviour.- 13 Characterization of Linear Viscoelastic Response Using a Dynamic System Approach.- 14 Viscoelastic Waves and Boundary Value Problem.- 15 Transition to the dynamic behaviour of structured and heterogeneous materials.- 16 The Stochastic Micromechanical Approach to the Response Behaviour of Engineering Materials.- 17 Intelligent Materials — An Overview.- 18 Pattern Recognition and Classification Methodology for the Characterization of Material Response States.- Appendix D The z-Transform.- D.1 Introduction.- D.2 Properties of the z-Transform.- D.3 Relations between the z-Transform and Fourier Transform.- Examples.- D.4 Regions of Convergence for the z-Transform.- D.5 The Inverse z-Transform.- D.6 Problems.- D.7 References.- D.8 Further Reading.- Cumulative Subject Index.