Continuum Mechanics:
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Main Author: Liu, I-Shih (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2002
Series:Advanced Texts in Physics
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:This concise textbook develops step by step the fundamental principles of continuum mechanics. Emphasis is on mathematical clarity, and an extended appendix provides the required background knowledge in linear algebra and tensor calculus. After introducing the basic notions about general kinematics, balance equations, material objectivity and constitutive functions, the book turns to the presentation of rational thermodynamics by stressing the role of Lagrange multipliers in deriving constitutive funcitions from the underlying entropy principle. A brief lecture on extended thermodynamics closes the book. Many examples and exercises round off the material presented in the chapters. The book addresses primarily advanced undergraduate students in theoretical physics, applied mathematics and materials sciences
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XII, 298 p)
ISBN:9783662050569
9783642077029
ISSN:1439-2674
DOI:10.1007/978-3-662-05056-9

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