This book presents recent research and experiments on the behavior of crystalline solids. The articles address a variety of relevant technological applications and introduce a number of powerful new methods for dealing with the material. The book should be useful to both applied mathematicians and engineers alike.

Inhalt
The microstructure of Martensite and its implications for the shape-memory effect.- Approximation and oscillations.- Computation of twinning.- Computational results for a two-dimensional model of crystalline microstructure.- Local bifurcation theory for thermoelastic Bravais lattices.- Geometric parameters and the relaxation of multiwell energies.- Variational problems for crystals with defects.- The concept of a laminate.- Multiply twinned phases and microstructures in Ni-Al: A transmission electron microscopy study.- Phase transformations in ?-phase shape memory alloys studied by Hraem, Alchemi and X-Ray diffraction.- On the problem of two wells.- Some remarks on separately convex functions.- New variational problems in the statics of liquid crystals.