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• Gerard A. Maugin GENERALIZED CONTINUUM MECHANICS: THREE PATHS [pdf]
• P.G. Kevrekidis, I. G. Kevrekidis, A. R. Bishop and E. S. Titi A continum approach to discreteness, Physical Review E, 65 (2002), no. 4, 046613. [pdf] , [ps]
• R.H.J. Peerlings, M.G.D. Geers, R. de Borst, W.A.M. Brekelmans, A critical comparison of nonlocal and gradient-enhanced softening continua, Int. J. Solids Structures, 38, 7723-7746, (2001) [html]

Multi-field solitons: We construct multi-field generalized continuum models to obtain them. Usually solitons are described by a single continuous function. The N-field soliton is described by N field functions.

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• Miroshnichenko A.E., Vasiliev A.A. Multi-field modelling of short wavelength deformations for Cosserat solids Proceedings of the XXII International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (XXII ICTAM 2008), 24-29 August 2008, Adelaide, Australia, J. Denier, M.D. Finn, and T Mattner (editors), Article 10926, ISBN 978-0-9805142-1-6 [.pdf, 123Kb]
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