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Advanced Series in Engineering Science - Vol. 1

CLASSICAL AND COMPUTATIONAL SOLID MECHANICS

by Y C Fung (University of California, San Diego) & Pin Tong (Hong Kong University of Science & Technology)

About the Authors

Dr Fung is the recipient of the von Karman Medal from ASCE, Timoshenko Medal from ASME, Poiseuille Medal from ISB, Borelli Medal from ASB, Landis Award from Microcirculatory Society, an Alza Award from BMES.

Dr Tong received the von Karman Award for his outstanding contribution to structural materials, Engineer of the Year Award, and Award for Meritorious Achievement from the US Department of Transportation.

Table of Contents (62k)
Chapter 1: Introduction (129k)
Chapter 1.1: Hooke's Law (183k)
Chapter 1.2: Linear Solids with Memory: Models of Viscoelasticity (169k)
Chapter 1.3: Sinusoidal Oscillations in a Viscoelastic Material (168k)
Chapter 1.4: Plasticity (145k)
Chapter 1.5: Vibrations (177k)
Chapter 1.6: Prototype of Wave Dynamics (132k)
Chapter 1.7: Biomechanics (115k)
Chapter 1.8: Historical Remarks (130k)

This invaluable book has been written for engineers and engineering scientists in a style that is readable, precise, concise, and practical. It gives first priority to the formulation of problems, presenting the classical results as the gold standard, and the numerical approach as a tool for obtaining solutions. The classical part is a revision of the well-known text Foundations of Solid Mechanics, with a much-expanded discussion on the theories of plasticity and large elastic deformation with finite strains. The computational part is all new and is aimed at solving many major linear and nonlinear boundary-value problems.


Contents:

  • Tensor Analysis
  • Stress Tensor
  • Analysis of Strain
  • Conservation Laws
  • Elastic and Plastic Behavior of Materials
  • Linearized Theory of Elasticity
  • Solutions of Problems in Linearized Theory of Elasticity by Potentials
  • Two-Dimensional Problems in Linearized Theory of Elasticity
  • Variational Calculus, Energy Theorems, Saint-Venant's Principle
  • Hamilton's Principle, Wave Propagation, Applications of Generalized Coordinates
  • Elasticity and Thermodynamics
  • Irreversible Thermodynamics and Viscoelasticity
  • Thermoelasticity
  • Viscoelasticity
  • Large Deformation
  • Incremental Approach to Solving Some Nonlinear Problems
  • Finite Element Methods
  • Mixed and Hybrid Formulations
  • Finite Element Methods for Plates and Shells
  • Finite Element Modeling of Nonlinear Elasticity, Viscoelasticity, Plasticity, Viscoplasticity and Creep


Readership: Graduate and senior undergraduate students as well as researchers in computational mechanics, civil engineering, mechanical engineering, bioengineering, aeronautics, astronautics and materials science.


"... this is a good, comprehensive, unified presentation of much of the field of solid mechanics, written by two well-regarded researchers in that field."

Applied Mechanics Reviews




952pp Pub. date: Jul 2001
ISBN 978-981-02-3912-1
981-02-3912-2
US$98 / £65
ISBN 978-981-02-4124-7(pbk)
981-02-4124-0(pbk)
US$49 / £33
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