
Introduction to Continuum Mechanics
Description
Key Features
- Significantly expanded coverage of elasticity in Chapter 5, including solutions of some 3-D problems based on the fundamental potential functions approach
- New section at the end of Chapter 4 devoted to the integral formulation of the field equations
- Seven new appendices appear at the end of the relevant chapters to help make each chapter more self-contained
- Expanded and improved problem sets providing both intellectual challenges and engineering applications
Readership
Table of Contents
Introduction: Continuum Theory, Contents of Continuum Mechanics
TENSORS
Part A: The Indicial Notation
Part B: Tensors
Part C: Tensor Calculus
Part D: Curvilinear CoordinatesKINEMATICS 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 DeformationNEWTONIAN 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
Product details
- No. of pages: 536
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Butterworth-Heinemann 2009
- Published: July 23, 2009
- Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
- eBook ISBN: 9780080942520
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780750685603
About the Authors
W Michael Lai
Affiliations and Expertise
David Rubin
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Erhard Krempl
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