Books in the Lecture Notes on Numerical Methods in Engineering and Sciences series

This book develops Initial Boundary Value equations for solving physical problems. Covers Tensors, Continuum Kinematics, Stress, Fundamental Equations, Constitutive Equations, Linear Elasticity, Hyperelasticity, Plasticity, Thermoelasticity and more.

The book then concentrates on developing governing equations for the problem dealing in turn with the kinematics of material continuum, description of the state of stress, discussion of the fundamental conservation laws of underlying physics, formulation of initial-boundary value problems and presenting weak (variational) formulations.

This book presents a complete analysis of the nonlinear behavior of a structure. It includes a detailed description of various constitutive models, dependent and independent of time and its influence on the nonlinear behavior of the structure.

This publication is aimed at students, teachers, and researchers of Continuum Mechanics and focused extensively on stating and developing Initial Boundary Value equations used to solve physical problems. With respect to notation, the tensorial, indicial and Voigt notations have been used indiscriminately. The book is divided into twelve chapters with the following topics: Tensors, Continuum Kinematics, Stress, The Objectivity of Tensors, The Fundamental Equations of Continuum Mechanics, An Introduction to Constitutive Equations, Linear Elasticity, Hyperelasticity, Plasticity (small and large deformations), Thermoelasticity (small and large deformations), Damage Mechanics (small and large deformations), and An Introduction to Fluids. Moreover, the text is supplemented with over 280 figures, over 100 solved problems, and 130 references.