Continuum Mechanics of Anisotropic Materials [Hardcover]

Continuum Mechanics of Anisotropic Materials(CMAM) presents an entirely new and unique development of material anisotropy in the context of an appropriate selection and organization of continuum mechanics topics. These features will distinguish this continuum mechanics book from other books on this subject. Textbooks on continuum mechanics are widely employed in engineering education, however, none of them deal specifically with anisotropy in materials. For the audience of Biomedical, Chemical and Civil Engineering students, these materials will be dealt with more frequently and greater accuracy in their analysis will be desired. Continuum Mechanics of Anisotropic Materials' author has been?a leader?in the field of developing new approaches for the understanding of anisotropic materials.Continuum Mechanics of Anisotropic Materials presents an entirely new and unique development of material anisotropy in the context of an appropriate selection and organization of continuum mechanics topics.

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Mechanical modeling of materials

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Models and the real physical world

2.3 Guidelines for modeling objects and solving mechanics problems

2.4 The types of models used in mechanics

2.5 The particle model

2.6 The rigid object model

2.7 The deformable continuum model

2.8 Lumped parameter models

2.9 Statistical models

2.10 Cellular automata

2.11 The limits of reductionism

2.12 References

Appendix 2A Laplace transform refresher

Appendix 2B First order differential equations

Appendix 2C Electrical analogs of the spring and dashpot models

Chapter 3. Basic continuum kinematics

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