Introduction to Continuum Mechanics

Continuum Mechanics is a branch of physical mechanics. It is fundamental to the fields of civil, mechanical, chemical and bioengineering. This time-tested text has been used for real-life engineering students, as well as graduate students. The text begins with a detailed presentation of the coordinate invariant quantity, the tensor, as a linear transformation. This is a translation of the subject of the kinematics of deformation, as well as the basic laws of continuum mechanics. As the elastic, viscous and viscoelastic materials, are presented.

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• Significantly expanded coverage of 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 set

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