Mechanics and Durability of Solids, Volume II

Using a fresh, modern approach to the mechanics of materials, the focus of this book is on a unified mechanistic approach that uses energy concepts for modeling a large range of engineering material behavior. In the presentation, 1D-Think models lead to the development of various fundamentals of continuum mechanics, such as deformation and strain, momentum balance, stress and stress states, thermoelasticity and elasticity bounds, plasticity and yield design. Topics covered includes a description of finite deformation, infinitesimal deformation, momentum balance and stress, stress and stress states, thermoelasticity, the theorem of virtual work and variational methods in elasticity, 1D-plasticity, plasticity models and limit analysis and yield design.