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CONTINUUM MECHANICS for ENGINEERS

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Contents<br />

1 Continuum Theory<br />

1.1 The Continuum Concept<br />

1.2 Continuum Mechanics<br />

2 Essential Mathematics<br />

2.1 Scalars, Vectors, and Cartesian Tensors<br />

2.2 Tensor Algebra in Symbolic Notation —<br />

Summation Convention<br />

2.3 Indicial Notation<br />

2.4 Matrices and Determinants<br />

2.5 Trans<strong>for</strong>mations of Cartesian Tensors<br />

2.6 Principal Values and Principal Directions of Symmetric<br />

Second-Order Tensors<br />

2.7 Tensor Fields, Tensor Calculus<br />

2.8 Integral Theorems of Gauss and Stokes<br />

Problems<br />

3 Stress Principles<br />

3.1 Body and Surface Forces, Mass Density<br />

3.2 Cauchy Stress Principle<br />

3.3 The Stress Tensor<br />

3.4 Force and Moment Equilibrium, Stress<br />

Tensor Symmetry<br />

3.5 Stress Trans<strong>for</strong>mation Laws<br />

3.6 Principal Stresses, Principal Stress Directions<br />

3.7 Maximum and Minimum Stress Values<br />

3.8 Mohr’s Circles <strong>for</strong> Stress<br />

3.9 Plane Stress<br />

3.10 Deviator and Spherical Stress States<br />

3.11 Octahedral Shear Stress<br />

Problems<br />

4 Kinematics of De<strong>for</strong>mation and Motion<br />

4.1 Particles, Configurations, De<strong>for</strong>mation, and Motion<br />

4.2 Material and Spatial Coordinates<br />

4.3 Lagrangian and Eulerian Descriptions<br />

4.4 The Displacement Field

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