Publications


- M. PITTERI, "On the foundations of electromagnetism for polarizable bodies",
Il Nuovo Cimento 18 B (1973) , 144-163.
- M. PITTERI, "Two variational principles for second order materials within
General Relativity", Annali di Matematica Pura e Applicata (IV) 106 (1975) ,
315-327 .
- M. PITTERI, "Materials of order  N  from a variational point of view within
General Relativity", Annali di Matematica Pura e Applicata (IV) 113 (1977) ,
199-209 .
-M. PITTERI, "On the asymptotic behaviour of Boltzmann's  h  function in the
Kinetic Theory of gases", Acc. Naz. dei Lincei, Rendiconti della Classe di
Scienze Fis., Mat. e Naturali (VIII) 67 (1979) , 248-251. 
- M. PITTERI, "A counter-example for the heat-transfer condition in the Kinetic
Theory of gases", Acc. Naz. dei Lincei, Rendiconti della Classe di Scienze
Fis., Mat. e Naturali (VIII) 67 (1979) , 303-307 . 
- M. PITTERI, "Classical thermodynamics based upon Carnot's General Axiom",
Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis  80 (1982) , 333-385 .
-  M. PITTERI, "On the axiomatic foundations of temperature", Appendix G6 of C.
Truesdell's Rational Thermodynamics , Second Edition, Springer-Verlag, New
York, etc., 1984.
- M. PITTERI, "Reconciliation of Local and Global Symmetries of Crystals",
Journal of Elasticity  14 (1984), 175-190.
-M. PITTERI, "On +1-lattices", Journal of Elasticity  15 (1985), 3-25.
- M. PITTERI, "On the kinematics of mechanical twinning in crystals", Archive
for Rational Mechanics and Analysis  88 (1985), 25-57 .
- M. PITTERI, "On Type II Twins",International Journal of Plasticity 2 (1986),
99-106.
- M. PITTERI, "Continuum equations of balance in classical statistical
mechanics", Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis  94 (1986), 291-305.
- M. PITTERI, "On a definition of temperature based upon mechanical concepts
alone", printed by the author (1986).
- M. PITTERI, "On crystallographic space groups and generalized lattice
groups", printed by the author (1986).
- M. PITTERI, "A contribution to the description of natural states for elastic
crystalline solids", Metastability and Incompletely Posed Problems (S.Antman,
J.L. Ericksen, D. Kinderlehrer and I. Mller Eds.), Springer-Verlag, New York,
1987.
- M. PITTERI, "On the objectivity of certain gross fields constructed within
classical statistical mechanics", Proceedings of the ISIMM Symposium on Kinetic
Theory and Extended Thermodynamics (I. Mller and T. Ruggeri Ed.), Pitagora,
Bologna, 1987.
- M. PITTERI, "Some remarks on equilibria of crystalline solids", Proceedings
of the Italian-Polish meeting on Selected Problems of Modern Continuum Theory
(W. Kosinsky, T. Manacorda, A. Morro and T. Ruggeri Ed.), Pitagora, Bologna,
1987.
- M. PITTERI, "On 1- and 3-dimensional models in "non-convex" elasticity",
Material Instabilities in Continuum Mechanics and Related Mathematical Problems
(J.M.Ball Ed.), Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1988.
- M. PITTERI, On the equations of balance for mixtures constructed by means of
classical statistical mechanics, MECCANICA 23 (1988), 3-10.
- M. PITTERI, Some remarks on a non-linearly elastic model  for J.F. Bell's
parabolic stress-strain law for large plastic deformations in crystalline
solids, Advances in Plasticity 1989, proceedings of PLASTICITY '89, A.S.Khan &
M. Tokuda Eds., Pergamon Press, Oxford, New York, etc., 1989.
- M. PITTERI, Some problems in non-linear elasticity of crystalline solids,
Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics 2 (1990), 99-117.
- M. PITTERI, On a statistical-kinetic model for generalized continua, Archive
for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 111 (1990), 99-120.
- M. PITTERI, Some theorems for an axiomatic theory of temperature, Rendiconti
di Matematica e delle sue Applicazioni (VII) 10 (1990), 133-149.
- M. PITTERI [1991], A derivation of equations of balance for microstructured
continua, Proceedings of the Vth International Meeting "Waves and Stability in
Continuous Media", (S. Rionero Ed.), World Scientific, Singapore, etc.,
332-338.
- M. PITTERI [1992], "Some remarks on a derivation of equations of balance for
microstructured continua from Maxwell's statistical mechanics", Proceedings of
the Vth Bilateral Polish-Italian Meeting "Thermodynamics and Kinetic Theory",
(W. Kosinski, W. Larecki, A. Morro, H. Zorski Ed.), World Scientific,
Singapore, etc., 165-171.
- M. PITTERI [1992], "On the variation of a surface energy functional of
interest in the equilibrium of phase boundaries", Stability and Applied
Analysis of Continuous Media 2, 369-402.
- M. PITTERI and G. ZANZOTTO [1996], "Transformation twinning and the Mallard's
law", in Contemporary Research in the Mechanics and Mathematics of Materials
(R.C. Batra and M.F. Beatty Eds.) CIMNE, Barcelona.
- M. PITTERI and G. ZANZOTTO [1996], "On the definition and classification of
Bravais lattices", Acta Crystallographica A52, 830-838.
- M. PITTERI and G. ZANZOTTO [1997], "The arithmetic symmetry of
multilattices", in Proceedings of the IX Conference on Waves and Stability in
Continuous Media, Bari.
- M. PITTERI [1998], "Geometry and symmetry of multilattices", International
Journal of Plasticity, 14, 139-157..
- M. PITTERI and G. ZANZOTTO [1998], "Generic and non-generic
cubic-to-monoclinic transformations and their twins", Acta Materialia, 46,
225-237.
- M. PITTERI and G. ZANZOTTO [1998], "Symmetry-breaking and transformation
twinning", Arch. Rat. Mech. Anal. to appear.
- M. PITTERI and G. ZANZOTTO [1998], "Beyond space groups: on the arithmetic
symmetry of multilattices", Acta Crystallographica, A54,359--373.
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Book in preparation:

M. PITTERI and G. ZANZOTTO, Continuum Theories for Phase Transitions and
Twinning in Crystals, Chapman & Hall, to appear.




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