Introduction to Continuum Mechanics - After Truesdell and Noll

. Ed(s): Smith, Donald R.

ISBN 10: 0792324544 / ISBN 13: 9780792324546

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993

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Provides an introduction to rational continuum mechanics in a form suitable for students of engineering, mathematics and science. This book focuses on the simplest case of the classical mechanics of nonpolar materials. Editor(s): Smith, Donald R. Series: Solid Mechanics and its Applications. Num Pages: 366 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PHD. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1540. . 1993. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Introduction to Continuum Mechanics - After Truesdell and Noll
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792324544
• ISBN 13: 9780792324546
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

to Continuum Mechanics - after Truesdell and Noll by DONALD R. SMITH University of California -San Diego, Department of Mathematics, La Jolla, U. S. A. SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B. V. Library ofCongress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Smlth. Dona ld R. An introductlon to continuum mechanlcs ! by Donald R. Smlth. p. cm. -- . 24 0. 4 Gradients of Principal Invariants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 38 0. 5 Chain Rules of Differentiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 0. 6 Gradient of a Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 0.

Synopsis

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.