Category: Engineering Mechanics.

Simple Torsion

Bending of a Beam

Uniaxial Tension and Compression

Bars, Beams, Rods

Components like bars, beams and rods are frequently applied in mechanical and civil engineering. Their characteristic feature is that one…

Elementary Problems of Engineering Mechanics

Equations of Continuum Mechanics for Linear Elasticity

Linear Elasticity

An elastic solid is a deformable continuum that recovers its original configuration when forces causing deformation are removed. For linear…

Constitutive Equations

All foregoing axioms, laws, equations are supposed to be valid for all material bodies and are thus labelled universal. In…

Balance of Energy

The rate of work performed by forces acting on a body is defined by Principle of Virtual Work Alternative to…

Conservation of Mass

Balance of Linear and Angular Momentum

Fundamental Laws of Continuum Mechanics

Continuum mechanics is essentially based on fundamental principles having the character of axioms, that are laws, which cannot be proven…

Plane Stress State

PIOLA-KIRCHHOFF Stresses