(BQ) Part 1 book "Introduction to the mechanics of a continuous medium" has contents: Introduction, vectors and tensors, stress, strain and deformation, general principles, constitutive equations. | INTRODUCTION TO THE MECHANICS OF A CONTINUOUS MEDIUM Lawrence E. Malvern Professor of Mechanics College oI Engineenng Mtchtgan State University Prentice-Hall, Inc. : ood CIr(fI. SCII Jersey e 1969 by Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, N J All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without permission in wrrtmg from the publisher. Current printing (last digit): 10 9 8 7 13-487603-2 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 69-13712 Printed In the Unrted States of America Preface This book offers a unified presentation of the concepts and general principles common to all branches of solid and fluid mechanics, designed to appeal to the intuition and understanding of advanced undergraduate or first-year postgraduate students in engineering or engineering science. The book arose from the need to provide a general preparation in continuum mechanics for students who WIll pursue further work in specialized fields such as viscous fluids, elasticity, viscoelasticity, and plasncity, Originally the book was introduced for reasons of pedagogical economy-to present the common foundations of these specialized subjects in a unified manner and also to provide some introduction to each subject for students who will not take courses in all of these areas. This approach develops the foundations more carefully than the traditional separate courses where there is a tendency to hurry on to the applications, and moreover provides a background for later advanced study in modem nonlinear continuum mechanics, The first five chapters devoted to general concepts and principles applicable to all continuous media are followed by a chapter on constitutive equations, the equations defining particular media. The chapter on constitutive theory begins With sections on the specific constitutive equations of linear viscosity, linearized elasticity, linear viscoelasucity, and plasticity, and concludes with two sections on modem .
