Introduction to continuum mechanics

W Michael Lai, Erhard Krempl, David Rubin0750628944, 9780750628945, 9780585470658

New material has been added to this third edition text for a beginning course in continuum mechanics. Additions include anisotropic elastic solids, finite deformation theory, some solutions of classical elasticity problems, objective tensors and objective time derivatives of tensors, constitutive equations for viscoelastic fluids, and equations in cylindrical and spherical coordinates. Many examples and problems with selected answers are included.