Continuum Mechanics for Engineers

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CRC Press, Jul 28, 2009 - Science - 398 pages
Continuum Mechanics for Engineers, Third Edition provides engineering students with a complete, concise, and accessible introduction to advanced engineering mechanics. The impetus for this latest edition was the need to suitably combine the introduction of continuum mechanics, linear and nonlinear elasticity, and viscoelasticity for a graduate-leve
 

Contents

Chapter 1 Continuum Theory
1
Chapter 2 Essential Mathematics
5
Chapter 3 Stress Principles
53
Chapter 4 Kinematics of Deformation and Motion
103
Chapter 5 Fundamentals Laws and Equations
167
Chapter 6 Linear Elasticity
211
Chapter 7 Classical Fluids
271
Chapter 8 Nonlinear Elasticity
285
Chapter 9 Linear Viscoelasticity
309
General Tensors
343
Viscoelastic Creep and Relaxation
361
Index
365
Back cover
371
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