Imperfect Bifurcation in Structures and Materials: Engineering Use of Group-Theoretic Bifurcation Theory

This book provides a modern investigation into the bifurcation phenomena

of physical and engineering problems. Systematic methods—based on

asymptotic, probabilistic, and group-theoretic standpoints—are used to

examine experimental and computational data from numerous examples (e.g.,

soil, sand, kaolin, concrete, domes, etc.).

Engineers may find this book, with its minimized mathematical formalism,

to be a useful introduction to modern bifurcation theory. For

mathematicians, static bifu...