Mechanics today
By: edited by S. Nemat-Nasser, Professor
Series: Pergamon mechanics today series; Pergamon mechanics today series
Publisher: Pergamon Press
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 569
ISBN-13: 9781483189017; 9780080242491
Subjects: Applied Mechanics; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING; Engineering (General); Reference
Notes: " ... [includes] contributions ... presented at a symposium to honor Eric Reissner which was held at the University of California in San Diego on June 23, 1978 ..."--Preface Bibl. - List of publications of Eric Reissner: p.561-569.
Table of contents: title: FrontCover; Mechanics Today; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Dedication; Contributors; Preface; Contents of Volume 1; Chapter I. On the ""End Problem"" forThick Rectangular Plates; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 EIGENVALUE SOLUTIONS FOR THICK PLATES; 3 PLATE SUBJECTED TO A TRANSVERSE EDGE LOAD; 4 CONCLUSIONS; Acknowledgment; 5 REFERENCES; Chapter II. Aiming an Electromagnetic Beam by Bending the Segments of a Large Reflecting Surface: A Parameter Study; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 ANALYSIS SUMMARY; 3 NUMERICAL RESULTS; 4 LOCAL ERROR DUE TO CONCENTRATED LOAD ACTUATION; 5 CONCLUSIONS; 6 NOMENCLATURE.; title: Acknowledgments6 REFERENCES; Chapter III. ""Taylor Instability"" of the Surface of an Elastic-Plastic Plate; 1 INTRODUCTION AND A SET OF EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS; 2 INITIAL SOLUTION AND SUBSEQUENT MOTION FOR A PERFECTLY PLASTIC SOLID; 3 COMPARISON OF EXPERIMENT AND PREDICTION; 4 APPROXIMATION, IDEALIZATION, AND INTERPRETATION; 5 EFFECT OF ACCOMPANYING LATERAL PLASTIC FLOW OF THE PLATE; 6 CONCLUDING REMARKS; Acknowledgment; 7 REFERENCES; Chapter IV. On Pseudo-elasticity of Living Tissues; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 PSEUDO-STRAIN ENERGY FUNCTION FOR THE ARTERIES; 3 THE SKIN; 4 THE LUNG PARENCHYMA.; title: 5 OTHER FORMS OF PSEUDO-STRAIN ENERGY FUNCTION6 INVERSION OF THE STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP. THE COMPLEMENTARY STRAIN ENERGY FUNCTION; 7 THE EFFECT OF STRAIN RATE; 8 INTERPRETATION OF THE NONLINEAR STRESS-STRAIN RELATIONSHIP; Acknowledgment; 9 REFERENCES; Chapter V. Free Vibration Spectrum Structure of a Shell of Revolution; REFERENCES; Chapter VI. Applicability of Floquet-type Solutions to Bounded Layered Composites; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 INFINITE MEDIUM; 3 BEHAVIOUR AT ZONE BOUNDARIES; 4 LAYERED PLATES; 5 SURFACE WAVES; 6 ASYMPTOTIC LIMITS; 7 CONCLUSIONS; Acknowledgment; 8 REFERENCES.; title: Chapter VII. Kinematically Unstable Space Frameworks1 INTRODUCTION; 2 CALCULATION OF THE STABILITY OF THE FRAMEWORK; 3 EXPERIMENTS; 4 COMPARISON OF THEORY AND EXPERIMENT; 5 CONCLUSIONS; 6 REFERENCES; Chapter VIII. The Momentum-balance Method in Earthquake Engineering; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 WESTERGAARD ANALYSIS; 3 KARMAN ANALYSIS; 4 ANALYSIS OF DAM WITH SLOPING FACE; 5 EXPLANATION OF SINGULARITY; 6 CLARIFICATION OF MOMENTUM-BALANCE METHOD; 7 CONCLUSIONS; 8 REFERENCES; Chapter IX. An Elastic Porous Molecule Model for the Molecular Dynamics of Polymer Liquids; 1 INTRODUCTION.; title: 2 FORMULATION OF THE EQUATIONS3 IRROTATIONAL PRIMARY FLOW; 4 SOLUTION OF A PLANE FLOW PROBLEM; 5 REFERENCES; Chapter X. The Intrinsic Equations of Shell Theory with Some Applications; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 BASIC INTRINSIC EQUATIONS; 3 CYLINDRICAL BENDING OF A CIRCULAR CYLINDRICAL SHELL IN THE ABSENCE OF SURFACE LOADS; 4 THE REISSNER-MEISSNER EQUATIONS; 5 NONLINEAR THEORY OF AXISYMMETRIC DEFORMATIONS OF SHELLS OF REVOLUTION: THE R-M-R EQUATIONS; 6 CONCLUDING REMARKS; 7 REFERENCES; Chapter XI. Self-consistent Scheme in Random Media Elasticity-Exact or Only Approximate?; 1 INTRODUCTION.