Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
Summary
This book is written for graduate students in solid mechanics and materials science and should also be useful to researchers in these fields. The book consists of eight parts. Part 1 covers the mathematical preliminaries used in later chapters. It includes an introduction to vectors and tensors, basic integral theorems, and Fourier series and integrals. The second part is an introduction to nonlinear continuum mechanics. This incorporates kinematics, kinetics, and thermodynamics of a continuum and an application to nonlinear elasticity. Part 3 is devoted to linear elasticity. The governing equations of the three-dimensional elasticity with appropriate specifications for the two-dimensional plane stress and plane strain problems are given. The applications include the analyses of bending of beams and plates, torsion of prismatic rods, contact problems, semi-infinite media, and three-dimensional isotropic and anisotropic elastic problems. Part 4 is concerned with micromechanics, which includes the analyses of dislocations and cracks in isotropic and anisotropic media, the well-known Eshelby elastic inclusion problem, energy analyses of imperfections and configurational forces, and micropolar elasticity. In Part 5 we analyze dislocations in bimaterials and thin films, with an application to the study of strain relaxation in thin films and stability of planar interfaces. Part 6 is devoted to mathematical and physical theories of plasticity and viscoplasticity. The phenomenological or continuum theory of plasticity, single crystal, polycrystalline, and laminate plasticity are presented. The micromechanics of crystallographic slip is addressed in detail, with an analysis of the nature of crystalline deformation, embedded in its tendency toward localized plastic deformation.
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- Mechanics of Solids and Materials , pp. xix - xxPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006