This textbook is for advanced students who already are familiar with the elementary concepts of statics and the strength of …
One of the most important subjects for any student of engineering to master is the behaviour of materials and structures …
Tremendous advances in computer technologies and methods have precipitated a great demand for refinements in the constitutive models of plasticity. …
Soft biological tissues often undergo large elastic (or nearly elastic) deformations that can be analyzed using the nonlinear theory of …
The subject of mechanical behavior has been in the front line of basic studies in engineering curricula for many years. …
In an attempt to meet the demand for new ultra-high strength materials, the processing of novel material configurations with unique …
This book addresses the basic concepts of continuum mechanics, that is, the classical field theory of deformable bodies. The theory …
