Introduction to Continuum Mechanics

This text treats solids and fluids in a balanced manner, using thermodynamic restrictions on the relation between applied forces and material responses.

Sudhakar Nair (Author)

9780521187893, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 3 March 2011

252 pages
25.4 x 17.8 x 1.3 cm, 0.44 kg

This textbook treats solids and fluids in a balanced manner, using thermodynamic restrictions on the relation between applied forces and material responses. This unified approach can be appreciated by engineers, physicists, and applied mathematicians with some background in engineering mechanics. It has many examples and about 150 exercises for students to practise. The higher mathematics needed for a complete understanding is provided in the early chapters. This subject is essential for engineers involved in experimental or numerical modelling of material behaviour.

1. Introduction
2. Cartesian tensors
3. General tensors
4. Integral theorems
5. Deformation
6. Motion
7. Fundamental laws of mechanics
8. Stress tensor
9. Energy and entropy constraints
10. Constitutive relations
11. Hyperelastic materials
12. Fluid dynamics
13. Viscoelasticity
14. Plasticity.

Subject Areas: Mechanics of solids [TGMD], Fluid mechanics [PHDF], Applied mathematics [PBW]