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Fourth Edition
By
W Michael Lai, Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering & Orthopaedic Bioengineering, Columbia University, New York, USA
David Rubin, Senior Scientist at Weidlinger Associates, Inc., New York, NY, USA
Erhard Krempl, Professor Emeritus of Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA
Description
Continuum Mechanics is a branch of physical mechanics that describes the macroscopic mechanical behavior of solid or fluid materials
considered to be continuously distributed. It is fundamental to the fields of civil, mechanical, chemical and bioengineering. This time-tested
text has been used for over 35 years to introduce junior and senior-level undergraduate engineering students, as well as graduate students,
to the basic principles of continuum mechanics and their applications to real engineering problems. The text begins with a detailed presentation
of the coordinate invariant quantity, the tensor, introduced as a linear transformation. This is then followed by the formulation of
the kinematics of deformation, large as well as very small, the description of stresses and the basic laws of continuum mechanics. As
applications of these laws, the behaviors of certain material idealizations (models) including the elastic, viscous and viscoelastic
materials, are presented.
This new edition offers expanded coverage of the subject matter both in terms of details and
contents, providing greater flexibility for either a one or two-semester course in either continuum mechanics or elasticity. Although
this current edition has expanded the coverage of the subject matter, it nevertheless uses the same approach as that in the earlier editions
- that one can cover advanced topics in an elementary way that go from simple to complex, using a wealth of illustrative examples and
problems. It is, and will remain, one of the most accessible textbooks on this challenging engineering subject.
Audience
Upper undergraduate and graduate students in mechanical, civil, aerospace and bio engineering
Contents
Introduction: Continuum Theory, Contents of Continuum Mechanics;
TENSORS: Part A: The Indicial Notation; Part B: Tensors; Part C: Tensor
Calculus; Part D: Curvilinear Coordinates; KINEMATICS OF A CONTINUUM; STRESS; THE ELASTIC SOLID: Part A: Linear Isotropic Elastic Solid;
Part B: Linear Anisotropic Elastic Solid; Part C: Constitutive Equation for Isotropic Elastic Solid Under Large Deformation; NEWTONIAN
VISCOUS FLUID; INTEGRAL FORMULATION OF GENERAL PRINCIPLES; NON-NEWTONIAN FLUDS: Part A: Linear Viscoelastic Fluid; Part B: Nonlinear
Viscoelastic Fluid; Part C: Viscometric Flow of Simple Fluid
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Hardbound, 0 pages, publication date: AUG-2009
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-8560-3
ISBN-10: 0-7506-8560-3
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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