Nonlinear Continua

• Main Authors: Dvorkin, Eduardo N. (Author), Goldschmit, Marcela B. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Series: Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Differential geometry.; Mechanics.; Thermodynamics.; Heat engineering.; Heat transfer.; Mass transfer.; Continuum mechanics.; Fluid mechanics.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Differential Geometry.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.; Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer.
• Physical Description: XII, 260 p. 30 illus. online resource.
• ISBN: 9783540292647
• ISSN: 1860-482X

This book develops a modern presentation of Continuum Mechanics, oriented towards numerical applications in the fields of nonlinear analysis of solids, structures and fluid mechanics. The kinematics of the continuum deformation, including pull-back / push-forward transformations between different configurations, stress and strain measures, balance principles, constitutive relations and variational principles are developed using general curvilinear coordinates. Even though the mathematical presentation of the different topics is quite rigorous, an effort is made to link formal developments with engineering physical intuition.