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Continuum Mechanics of Solids

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Lallit Anand and Sanjay Govindjee

20 July 2020

ISBN: 9780198864721

736 pages
Hardback
246x189mm

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Oxford Graduate Texts

Price: £72.00

This introductory graduate text is a unified treatment of the major concepts of Solid Mechanics for beginning graduate students in the many branches of engineering. Major topics are elasticity, viscoelasticity, plasticity, fracture, and fatigue. The book also has chapters on thermoelasticity, chemoelasticity, poroelasticity and piezoelectricity.

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This introductory graduate text is a unified treatment of the major concepts of Solid Mechanics for beginning graduate students in the many branches of engineering. Major topics are elasticity, viscoelasticity, plasticity, fracture, and fatigue. The book also has chapters on thermoelasticity, chemoelasticity, poroelasticity and piezoelectricity.

  • Includes step-by-step derivations and numerous detailed examples
  • Up-to-date presentation
  • Introduces the reader to topics in fracture and fatigue, and coupled field problems such as thermoelasticity, chemoelasticity, poroelasticity, and piezoelectricity
  • Helps equip graduate student readers to become practicing engineers, and sets them up for more specialized studies in the mechanical behavior of materials

About the Author(s)

Lallit Anand, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Dept of Mechanical Engineering, MIT, and Sanjay Govindjee, Professor in Engineering, Depf of Civil Engineering, University of California at Berkeley

Lallit Anand is the Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His research focuses on solid mechanics, and he is widely known for his contributions to the development of large deformation plasticity theory for engineering technology. He has received numerous honors, including the Eric Reissner Medal, 1992; ASME Fellow, 2003; International Plasticity Medal, 2007; IIT Kharagpur Distinguished Alumnus Award, 2011; ASME Drucker Medal, 2014; MIT Den Hartog Distinguished Educator Award, 2017; Brown University Engineering Alumni Medal, 2018; and the Society of Engineering Science Prager Medal, 2018. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2018.

Sanjay Govindjee is the Horace, Dorothy and Katherine Johnson Professor in Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He is known as the leading figure in modelling and computation of finitely deformable polymeric materials. He authored Engineering Mechanics of Deformable Solids (OUP, 2013), among other books. Govindjee serves as a consultant to several governmental agencies and private corporations. He is an active member in major societies such as the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the US Association for Computational Mechanics. He is also a registered Professional Mechanical Engineer in the state of California. Noteworthy honors include a National Science Foundation Career Award, the inaugural 1998 Zienkiewicz Prize and Medal, an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship 1999, a Berkeley Chancellor's Professorship 2006-2011. In 2018 he received a Humboldt-Forschungspreis (Humboldt Research Award).

Table of Contents

    I Vectors and Tensors
    1:Vectors and tensors: Algebra
    2:Vectors and tensors: Analysis
    II Kinematics
    3:Kinematics
    III Balance Laws
    4:Balance laws for mass, forces, and moments
    5:Balance of energy and entropy imbalance
    6:Balance laws for small deformations
    IV Linear Elasticity
    7:Constitutive equations for linear elasticity
    8:Linear elastostatics
    9:Solutions for some classical problems in linear elastostatics
    V Variational Formulations
    10:Variational formulation of boundary value problems
    11:Introduction to the finite element method
    12:Minimum principles
    VI Elastodynamics, Sinusoidal Progressive Waves
    13:Elastodynamics, Sinusoidal progressive waves
    VII Coupled Theories
    14:Linear thermoelasticity
    15:Chemoelasticity
    16:Linear poroelasticity
    17:Chemoelasticity theory for energy storage materials
    18:Linear piezoelectricity
    VIII Limits to Elastic Response, Yielding and Plasticity
    19:Limits to elastic response. Yielding and failure
    20:One-dimensional plasticity
    21:Three-dimensional plasticity with isotropic hardening
    22:Plasticity with kinematic and isotropic hardening
    23:Postulate of maximum dissipation
    24:Some classical problems in rate-independent plasticity
    25:Rigid-perfectly-plastic materials. Two extremum principles
    IX Fracture and Fatigue
    26:Linear elastic fracture mechanics
    27:Energy-based approach to fracture
    28:Fatigue
    X Linear Viscoelasticity
    29:Linear viscoelasticity
    XI Finite Elasticity
    30:Finite elasticity
    31:Finite elasticity of elastomeric materials
    XII Appendices
    A:Cylindrical and Spherical coordinate systems
    B:Stress intensity factors for some crack configurations

Reviews

"Both authors have made seminal contributions to the subject, and are scholars of great depth and breadth. The field is well established, broadly useful, and commonly taught. In recent years, new extensions, refinements, and applications are discovered, in fields like polymers, gels, and batteries. A textbook with attention to practical pedagogy, as written by these two distinguished scholars, is exceptionally timely." - Zhigang Suo, Harvard University

"This book will find a broad audience as a textbook for first year graduate level courses in solid mechanics all over the world." - Prashant Purohit, University of Pennsylvania

"The presentation is excellent... it is an appropriate time for such a book, particularly for the inclusion of thermoelasticity, viscoelasticity and chemoelasticity which are of increasing importance." - Alan Needleman, Texas A&M University

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