(BQ) Part 1 book "Introduction to continuum mechanics" has contents: Introduction, tensors (the indicial notation, tensors, tensor calculus, curvilinear coordinates), kinematics of a continuum, stress. | Introduction to Continuum Mechanics This page intentionally left blank Introduction to Continuum Mechanics Third Edition W. MICHAEL LAI Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Orthopaedic Bioengineering Columbia University, New York, NY, USA DAVID RUBIN Principal Weidlinger Associates, New York, NY, USA ERHARD KREMPL Rosalind and John J. Redfern, Jr, Professor of Engineering Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA U T T E R W O R T H E I N E M A N N First published by Pergamon Press Ltd 1993 Reprinted 1996 ©Butterworth Heinemann Ltd 1993 Reprinted in 1999 by Butterworth-Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Lai, W. Michael, 1930Introduction to continuum mechanics/ Lai, David Rubin, Erhard Krempl - 3rd ed. p. cm. ISBN 0 7506 2894 4 1. Contiuum mechanics I. Rubin,David, , Erhard III. Title 1993 531-dc20 93-30117 for Library of Congress CIP British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library, The publisher offers special discounts on bulk orders of this book. For information, please contact: Manager of Special Sales Elsevier Science 200 Wheeler Road Burlington, MA 01803 Tel: 781-313-4700 Fax:781-313-4802 For information on all Butterworth-Heinemann publications available, contact our World Wide Web homepage at 1098765 Printed in the United States of .
