Mechanics of Solids and Materials [Paperback]

This 2006 book combines modern and traditional solid mechanics topics in a coherent theoretical framework.An excellent source for graduate students and researchers in solid mechanics and materials science, Mechanics of Solids and Materials covers a wide range of topics. The book begins with a review of vectors, tensors, basic integral theorems, and Fourier series. In later chapters, it delves into the subjects of nonlinear continuum mechanics, elasticity, plasticity, and biomechanics. The book's thorough examination of these topics makes it a definitive resource for those pursuing an advanced study of solid mechanics and materials science.An excellent source for graduate students and researchers in solid mechanics and materials science, Mechanics of Solids and Materials covers a wide range of topics. The book begins with a review of vectors, tensors, basic integral theorems, and Fourier series. In later chapters, it delves into the subjects of nonlinear continuum mechanics, elasticity, plasticity, and biomechanics. The book's thorough examination of these topics makes it a definitive resource for those pursuing an advanced study of solid mechanics and materials science.This book blends both innovative (large strain, strain rate, temperature, time dependent deformation and localized plastic deformation in crystalline solids, deformation of biological networks) and traditional (elastic theory of torsion, elastic beam and plate theories, contact mechanics) topics in a coherent theoretical framework. Extensive use of transform methods to generate solutions will make this book of interest to structural, mechanical, and aerospace engineers. Plasticity theories, micromechanics, crystal plasticity, and energetics of elastic systems are also covered, as well as an overall review of math and thermodynamics.Part I. Mathematical Preliminaries: 1. Vectors and tensors; 2. Basic integral theorems; 3. Fourier series and Fourier integrals; Part II. Continuum Mechanics: 4. Kl³+