Elementary Continuum Mechanics for Everyone With Applications to Structural Mechanics /

• Main Author: Byskov, Esben (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, 194
• Subjects: Engineering.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Continuum mechanics.; Mechanical engineering.; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials.; Mechanical Engineering.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.
• Physical Description: XXX, 593 p. online resource.
• ISBN: 9789400757660
• ISSN: 0925-0042 ;

The book opens with a derivation of kinematically nonlinear 3-D continuum mechanics for solids. Then the principle of virtual work is utilized to derive the simpler, kinematically linear 3-D theory and to provide the foundation for developing consistent theories of kinematic nonlinearity and linearity for specialized continua, such as beams and plates, and finite element methods for these structures. A formulation in terms of the versatile Budiansky-Hutchinson notation is used as basis for the theories for these structures and structural elements, as well as for an in-depth treatment of structural instability.