Solid Mechanics with Python: Cartesian Coordinates (Computational Methods)

This book covers the fundamental principles of solid mechanics, focusing on the mechanical behavior of solids in two and three dimensions under various types of loads. The solids are defined in the Cartesian coordinate system and may have specific shapes and constraints.

Techniques, including stress methods and displacement methods, for solving solid mechanics problems are explained in detail, formulated, and demonstrated with numerous examples and illustrations. Python is used to derive formulations, find solutions symbolically or numerically, and plot the results graphically.

Written in Jupyter notebook format, this useful reference text offers a unified environment for theory description, code execution, and formulation, for easy reading and practicing.

Gui-Rong Liu received his PhD from Tohoku University, Japan, in 1991. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Northwestern University, USA, from 1991–1993. He was a Professor at the National University of Singapore until 2010. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, University of Cincinnati, USA. He was the Founder of the Association for Computational Mechanics (Singapore) (SACM) and served as the President of SACM until 2010. He served as the President of the Asia-Pacific Association for Computational Mechanics (APACM) (2010–2013) and an Executive Council Member of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) (2005–2010; 2020–2026). He authored a large number of journal papers and books including two bestsellers: Mesh Free Method: Moving Beyond the Finite Element Method and Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics: A Meshfree Particle Methods . He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computational Methods and served as an Associate Editor for IPSE and MANO. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Singapore Defence Technology Prize, NUS Outstanding University Researcher Award, NUS Best Teacher Award, APACM Computational Mechanics Award, JSME Computational Mechanics Award, ASME Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award, Zienkiewicz Medal from APACM, the AJCM Computational Mechanics Award, and the Humboldt Research Award. SACM Medal from the Association of Computational Mechanics (Singapore). He has been listed as one among the world's top 1% most influential scientists (Highly Cited Researchers) by Thomson Reuters for a number of years.