Principles of Continuum Mechanics
Conservation and Balance Laws with Applications

This senior undergraduate and first-year graduate text provides a concise treatment of the subject of continuum mechanics and elasticity.

J. N. Reddy (Author)

9781107199200, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 16 November 2017

270 pages
26.1 x 18.1 x 1.7 cm, 0.74 kg

'J. N. Reddy's Principles of Continuum Mechanics excels at presenting in a comprehensible and rigorous style a topic that is generally found challenging by students. The book includes numerous examples and analogies that facilitate a solid understanding of otherwise sophisticated concepts, and it provides extensive discussions and inspiring quotes that motivate the reader to regard this discipline within its wider scientific context.' Gabriel Potirniche, University of Idaho

Continuum mechanics deals with the stress, deformation, and mechanical behaviour of matter as a continuum rather than a collection of discrete particles. The subject is interdisciplinary in nature, and has gained increased attention in recent times primarily because of a need to understand a variety of phenomena at different spatial scales. The second edition of Principles of Continuum Mechanics provides a concise yet rigorous treatment of the subject of continuum mechanics and elasticity at the senior undergraduate and first-year graduate levels. It prepares engineer-scientists for advanced courses in traditional as well as emerging fields such as biotechnology, nanotechnology, energy systems, and computational mechanics. The large number of examples and exercise problems contained in the book systematically advance the understanding of vector and tensor analysis, basic kinematics, balance laws, field equations, constitutive equations, and applications. A solutions manual is available for the book.

1. Introduction
2. Vectors and tensors
3. Kinematics of a continuum
4. Stress vector and stress tensor
5. Conservation of mass and balance of momenta and energy
6. Constitute equations
7. Applications in heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and solid mechanics.

Subject Areas: Aerospace & aviation technology [TRP], Engineering thermodynamics [TGMB]