Ebook: Fundamentals of Structural Mechanics
Author: Keith D. Hjelmstad (auth.)
- Genre: Physics // Mechanics
- Tags: Civil Engineering, Numerical and Computational Methods in Engineering, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: Springer US
- Edition: 2
- Language: English
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The last few decades have witnessed a dramatic increase in the application of numerical computation to problems in solid and structural mechanics. The burgeoning of computational mechanics opened a pedagogical gap between traditional courses in elementary strength of materials and the finite element method that classical courses on advanced strength of materials and elasticity do not adequately fill. In the past, our ability to formulate theory exceeded our ability to compute. In those days, solid mechanics was for virtuosos. With the advent of the finite element method, our ability to compute has surpassed our ability to formulate theory. As a result, continuum mechanics is no longer the province of the specialist. What an engineer needs to know about mechanics has been forever changed by our capacity to compute. This book attempts to capitalize on the pedagogi cal opportunities implicit in this shift of perspective. It now seems more ap propriate to focus on fundamental principles and formulations than on classical solution techniques.
This volume is an introduction to basic continuum mechanics that emphasizes variational formulations and numeric computation. This provides the prerequisite information for finite elements for graduate and advances undergraduate students in civil and mechanical engineering - a required course for all mechanical and civil engineering students.
This volume is an introduction to basic continuum mechanics that emphasizes variational formulations and numeric computation. This provides the prerequisite information for finite elements for graduate and advances undergraduate students in civil and mechanical engineering - a required course for all mechanical and civil engineering students.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Vectors and Tensors....Pages 1-55
The Geometry of Deformation....Pages 57-101
The Transmission of Force....Pages 103-129
Elastic Constitutive Theory....Pages 131-157
Boundary Value Problems in Elasticity....Pages 159-192
The Ritz Method of Approximation....Pages 193-239
The Linear Theory of Beams....Pages 241-291
The Linear Theory of Plates....Pages 293-326
Energy Principles and Static Stability....Pages 327-357
Fundamental Concepts in Static Stability....Pages 359-388
The Planar Buckling of Beams....Pages 389-429
Numerical Computation for Nonlinear Problems....Pages 431-472
Back Matter....Pages 473-480
This volume is an introduction to basic continuum mechanics that emphasizes variational formulations and numeric computation. This provides the prerequisite information for finite elements for graduate and advances undergraduate students in civil and mechanical engineering - a required course for all mechanical and civil engineering students.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Vectors and Tensors....Pages 1-55
The Geometry of Deformation....Pages 57-101
The Transmission of Force....Pages 103-129
Elastic Constitutive Theory....Pages 131-157
Boundary Value Problems in Elasticity....Pages 159-192
The Ritz Method of Approximation....Pages 193-239
The Linear Theory of Beams....Pages 241-291
The Linear Theory of Plates....Pages 293-326
Energy Principles and Static Stability....Pages 327-357
Fundamental Concepts in Static Stability....Pages 359-388
The Planar Buckling of Beams....Pages 389-429
Numerical Computation for Nonlinear Problems....Pages 431-472
Back Matter....Pages 473-480
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