Talk:Micromechanics

This page should be renamed

Continuum Micromechanics

because there is only one sentence on "Micromechanics" and the rest is about "Continuum Micromechanics". I also believe that the definitions used for "continuum micromechanics" in this article are very narrow and misleading. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hammett66 (talk • contribs) 05:04, 21 January 2011 (UTC)

I do not feel that the definitionof micromechanics is "very narrow" and "misleading" - there is, however, the underlying problem that there are at least two research fields commonly referred to as "micromechanics": one is aimed at methods for modeling physical properties of inhomogeneous materials ("micromechanics of materials", to which the article refers) and the other at designing, producing and using mechanical and electromechanical devices of very small (sub-millimeter) size ("micromechanical systems", "microelectromechanical systems", MEMS ...), the latter being at least partly covered in Wikipedia by the "Micromelectromechanical systems". I guess a practical solution might be a disambiguation page. HelmutBoehm (talk) 11:40, 2 March 2011 (UTC)