An Introduction to Continuum Mechanics - after Truesdell and Noll
By: by Donald R. Smith
Series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications -- 22; Solid Mechanics and Its Applications -- 22
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Dordrecht
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9789048143146; 9789401707138
Subjects: Mechanics; Engineering; Global analysis (Mathematics); Mechanical engineering
Description: This book provides a brief introduction to rational continuum mechanics in a form suitable for students of engineering, mathematics and science. The presentation is tightly focused on the simplest case of the classical mechanics of nonpolar materials, leaving aside the effects of internal structure, temperature and electromagnetism, and excluding other mathematical models, such as statistical mechanics, relativistic mechanics and quantum mechanics. Within the limitations of the simplest mechanical theory, the author had provided a text that is largely self-contained. Though the book is primarily an introduction to continuum mechanics, the lure and attraction inherent in the subject may also recommend the book as a vehicle by which the student can obtain a broader appreciation of certain important methods and results from classical and modern analysis.
Notes: Online full text is restricted to subscribers.

Also available in print.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.