Continuum Mechanics

Zusammenfassung This up-to-date textbook for courses in continuum mechanics provides both the theoretical framework and the numerical methods required to model the behaviour of continuous materials. This text is tailored for advanced undergraduate or first-year graduate students with numerous step-by-step derivations and worked-out examples.

Autorentext
Professor Franco M. Capaldi received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He worked at Sandia National Labs before joining the faculty at Drexel University. In 2006 he became an Associate Professor of Civil Engineering at Merrimack College. His research focuses on the modeling of biological and polymeric materials at various length scales.

Klappentext
Designed for continuum mechanics courses and features both the theoretical framework and numerical methods required to model continuous material behaviour.

Inhalt
1. Mathematics; 2. Kinematics; 3. The stress tensor; 4. Introduction to material modeling; 5. Ideal gas; 6. Fluids; 7. Elastic material models; 8. Continuum mixture theory; 9. Growth models; 10. Parameter estimation and curve fitting; 11. Finite element method; 12. Appendix.

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