Fundamentals of Structural Mechanics
Fundamentals of Structural Mechanics
Springer; 2nd edition | 2004 | ISBN 0387233307 | PDF | 480 pages | 20 MB
This volume is an introduction to basic continuum mechanics that emphasizes variational formulations and numeric computation. This provides the prerequisite information for finite elements for graduate and advances undergraduate students in civil and mechanical engineering – a required course for all mechanical and civil engineering students.
This readable, student-friendly text responds to the pedagogical needs created by the advent of computational mechanics by focusing more upon formulations and fundamental principles and less upon classical solution techniques. It covers three main areas–(1) the fundamental principles of continuum mechanics, (2) the theories of beams and plates, and (3) static stability theory–with three unifying strands connecting them–(1) a direct vector notation, (2) the principle of virtual work (or variational calculus), and (3) a unified approach to numerical computation.
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