Introduction to Continuum Mechanics for Engineers: Revised Edition (Dover Civil and Mechanical Engineering) - Softcover

Ray M. Bowen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486474607 ISBN 13: 9780486474601

Publisher: Dover Publications, 2010

Synopsis

This self-contained graduate-level text introduces classical continuum models within a modern framework. Its numerous exercises illustrate the governing principles, linearizations, and other approximations that constitute classical continuum models.
Starting with an overview of one-dimensional continuum mechanics, the text advances to examinations of the kinematics of motion, the governing equations of balance, and the entropy inequality for a continuum. The main portion of the book involves models of material behavior and presents complete formulations of various general continuum models. The final chapter contains an introductory discussion of materials with internal state variables. Two substantial appendixes cover all of the mathematical background necessary to understand the text as well as results of representation theorems. Suitable for independent study, this volume features 280 exercises and 170 references.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0486474607
• ISBN 13: 9780486474601
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 320