Mechanics of Solids
Basic Principles
In addressing any problem in continuum or solid mechanics, three factors must be considered: (1) the Newtonian equations…
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Mechanics of Solids
Computational mechanics
The digital computer revolutionized the practice of many areas of engineering and science, and solid mechanics was among…
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Viscoelasticity
The German physicist Wilhelm Weber noticed in 1835 that a load applied to a silk thread produced not…
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Dislocations
The Italian elastician and mathematician Vito Volterra introduced in 1905 the theory of the elastostatic stress and displacement…
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Stress concentrations and fracture
In 1898 G. Kirsch derived the solution for the stress distribution around a circular hole in a much…
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The general theory of elasticity
Linear elasticity as a general three-dimensional theory began to be developed in the early 1820s based on Cauchy’s…
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Beams, columns, plates, and shells
The 1700s and early 1800s were a productive period during which the mechanics of simple elastic structural elements…
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Concepts of stress, strain, and elasticity
The English scientist Robert Hooke discovered in 1660, but published only in 1678, that for many materials the…
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Mechanics of solids
Mechanics of solids, science concerned with the stressing, deformation, and failure of solid materials and structures. What, then,…
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