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by A. J. M. Spencer
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ISBN: 0486435946 Dover Publications Price: $14.95 |
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Undergraduate text opens with introductory chapters on matrix algebra, vectors and Cartesian tensors, and an analysis of deformation and stress; succeeding chapters examine laws of conservation of mass, momentum, and energy as well as the formulation of mechanical constitutive equations. 1992 edition.
Unabridged republication of the edition published by Longman Scientific & Technical, Essex, England, 1992.
Table of Contents for Continuum Mechanics
| 1. Introduction. | |||||||
| 2. Introductory matrix algebra. | |||||||
| 3. Vectors and cartesian tensors. | |||||||
| 4. Particle kinematics. | |||||||
| 5. Stress. | |||||||
| 6. Motions and deformations. | |||||||
| 7. Conservation laws. | |||||||
| 8. Linear constitutive equations. | |||||||
| 9. Further analysis of finite deformation. | |||||||
| 10. Non-linear constitutive equations. | |||||||
| 11. Cylindrical and spherical polar coordinates. | |||||||
| Appendix. | |||||||
| Answers. | |||||||
| Further reading. | |||||||
| Index. |