Allan F. Bower

Applied Mechanics of Solids

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The second edition of Applied Mechanics of Solids provides a concise description of all the concepts needed to predict how solid materials deform and fail under stress. With its companion volume of solved example problems, it is an invaluable class textbook or reference for personal study or review.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 600
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 280mm x 210mm
• ISBN-13: 9781041019954
• ISBN-10: 1041019955
• Artikelnr.: 72211555

Autorenporträt

Allan F. Bower is Emeritus Professor of Engineering at Brown University, where he taught in the undergraduate mechanical engineering program and the graduate program in mechanics of solids. His research interests encompassed several areas in solid mechanics, such as the strength of contacting surfaces; thin films for microelectronics; metal forming; and mechanical behavior of energy storage materials. He also enjoyed working with Brown's talented undergraduate students in Brown's large introductory engineering courses for many years, and was the recipient of a number of teaching awards, including Brown's Royce family professorship in teaching excellence.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Overview of Solid Mechanics
2 Governing Equations
3 Constitutive Models - Relations between Stress and Strain
4 Solutions to simple boundary and initial value problems for elastic
solids
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6 Solutions for plastic solids
7 Finite Element Analysis: An Introduction
8 Finite Element Analysis: Theory and Implementation
9 Modeling Material Failure
10 Solutions for Rods, Beams, Membranes, Plates and Shells
Appendix A Review of Vectors and Matrices
Appendix B Introduction to Tensors and their properties
Appendix C Index Notation for Vector and Tensor Operations
Appendix D Vectors and Tensor Operations in Polar Coordinates
Appendix E Miscellaneous derivations