Amazon.com description: Product Description: The papers in this volume give a comprehensive review of the mechanical behaviour of new electromagnetic materials and their applications and discuss in detail their present and future roles. Containing contributions by outstanding experts the volume will be essential reading for all those involved in the areas of superconductivity, amorphous materials, conductive polymeric materials, actuators, sensors, nondestructive testing and materials quality control. A selection of contents: Parts: 1. Superconducting Materials. The macroscopic magnetic properties of the high temperature superconductors (C.W. Chu). A phenomenological model for elastic superconductors (A.F. Ghaleb). Mechanical ant thermal behaviour of multi layer plates simulating superconducting laminated structure (T. Takagi et al.). 2. News Concepts in Electromagnetics. Memory-dependent nonlocal electrodynamics (A.C. Eringen). Mechanical modelling of the magnetoelastic properties of amorphous ferromagnets (M. Fahnle et al.). On some problems in the micromechanics of defects in an electromagnetic solid (S. Minagawa et al.). 3. Electromagnetic Materials.