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Continuum Mechanics Lecture Notes The Mechanics of Elastic Solids
These notes provide an introduction to the mechanics of elastic solids for beginning graduate students. They may be downloaded without charge. Topics covered includes: Kinematics: Deformation, Kinematics: Motion, Mechanical Balance Laws and Field Equations, Thermodynamic Balance Laws and Field Equations, Singular Surfaces and Jump Conditions, Constitutive Principles, Elastic Materials, Linearized Elasticity, Compressible Fluids, Liquid Crystals.
Author(s): Rohan Abeyaratne
428 Pages 
Introduction to Continuum Mechanics by Shih Liu
This note explains the following topics: Notations and tensor algebra, Kinematics of finite deformation, Balance laws, Euclidean objectivity, Principle of material frame indifference, Material symmetry, Elastic solids, Viscoelastic materials, Second law of thermodynamics, Some problems in finite elasticity, Wave propagation in elastic bodies and mixture theory of porous media.
Author(s): I Shih Liu
128 Pages
Fundamentals of Continuum Mechanics
This note covers the following topics: Mathematical preliminaries, Stress, Motion and deformation, Balance of mass, Momentum and energy and ideal constitutive relations.
Author(s): Northwestern University
181 Pages
Introduction to Continuum Mechanics by David J. Raymond
This textbook develops the subject of continuum mechanics from the point of view of an applied physicist with interests in geophysics and astrophysics. Topics covered includes: The Notion of Stress, Budgets, Fluxes, and the Equations of Motion, Kinematics in Continuum Mechanics, Elastic Bodies, Waves in an Elastic Medium, Statics of Elastic Media, Newtonian Fluids, Creeping Flow and High Reynolds Number Flow.
Author(s): David J. Raymond
142 Pages
Continuum Mechanics Lecture Notes
This book covers the following topics: Geometry Of Deformation, Kinematics, Measures Of Stress, Fundamental Balance Laws, Moving Spatial Frame, Constitutive Equations, Entropy Principle, Classical Linear Elasticity, Small Motions in A Medium with a finite Pre-stress.
Author(s): Zdenek Martinec
179 Pages
J. R. Rice, Solid Mechanics (pdf 84p)
This note covers the following topics: Concepts of stress, strain and elasticity, Beams, columns, plates, shells, Elasticity, general theory, Waves, Stress concentrations and fracture, Linear and Angular Momentum Principles, Geometry of Deformation, Stress-Strain Relations, Equations of linear elasticity, mechanical theory, Some elementary two-dimensional solutions and Equations of finite deformation.
Author(s): James R. Rice
89 Pages
This note covers the following topics: method of continuum mechanics, Displacement, Strain, Theory of Elasticity in a Nutshell, Linear Elasticity and Spherical Coordinates.
Author(s): iMechanica.org
18 Pages
Engineering Visco Elasticity (PDF 37p)
This note covers the following topics: Molecular Mechanisms, Mathematical Models for Linear Viscoelastic Response, The Boltzman Superposition Integral, Viscoelastic Stress Analysis.
Author(s): David Roylance
37 Pages
Large deformation kinematics (PDF 66p)
This book covers the following topics: What is deformation, The deformation gradient, Homogenous deformations, Constructing the deformation gradient using dyads, Polar decomposition, Strain , Example: non-rotational deformations and Axisymmetric deformations.
Author(s): Rebecca M. Brannon
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