Maxwell Stresses and Dielectric Materials

Review from Ringgold Inc., ProtoView: Kloos, a physicist working in industry, takes a close look at specific electronic stresses while considering materials science, continuum mechanics and electrical engineering points of view. Although he limits coverage of the treatment of electrostatic Maxwell stresses to a macroscopic description, he also provides sufficient information so readers can deal with cases of low material symmetry as well as with the influence of viscoelasticity on the material response. He begins by describing Taylor expansion and interaction diagrams, electrostatic Maxwell stresses and quadratic electrostriction, then turns to derivation of the stress tensor from the force law, Maxwell stress tensors, Maxwell stress tensors at the boundary of a dielectric medium with another dielectric medium or with air, applications, including a viscoelastic case study in application to polymers, closing with an analogous phenomenon, magnetostatic Maxwell stresses.