Ebook: Continuum Mechanics Through the Twentieth Century: A Concise Historical Perspective

This overview of the development of continuum mechanics throughout the twentieth century is unique and ambitious. Utilizing a historical perspective, it combines an exposition on the technical progress made in the field and a marked interest in the role played by remarkable individuals and scientific schools and institutions on a rapidly evolving social background. It underlines the newly raised technical questions and their answers, and the ongoing reflections on the bases of continuum mechanics associated, or in competition, with other branches of the physical sciences, including thermodynamics. The emphasis is placed on the development of a more realistic modeling of deformable solids and the exploitation of new mathematical tools. The book presents a balanced appraisal of advances made in various parts of the world. The author contributes his technical expertise, personal recollections, and international experience to this general overview, which is very informative albeit concise.

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This overview of the development of continuum mechanics throughout the twentieth century is unique and ambitious. Utilizing a historical perspective, it combines an exposition on the technical progress made in the field and a marked interest in the role played by remarkable individuals and scientific schools and institutions on a rapidly evolving social background. It underlines the newly raised technical questions and their answers, and the ongoing reflections on the bases of continuum mechanics associated, or in competition, with other branches of the physical sciences, including thermodynamics. The emphasis is placed on the development of a more realistic modeling of deformable solids and the exploitation of new mathematical tools. The book presents a balanced appraisal of advances made in various parts of the world. The author contributes his technical expertise, personal recollections, and international experience to this general overview, which is very informative albeit concise.

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This overview of the development of continuum mechanics throughout the twentieth century is unique and ambitious. Utilizing a historical perspective, it combines an exposition on the technical progress made in the field and a marked interest in the role played by remarkable individuals and scientific schools and institutions on a rapidly evolving social background. It underlines the newly raised technical questions and their answers, and the ongoing reflections on the bases of continuum mechanics associated, or in competition, with other branches of the physical sciences, including thermodynamics. The emphasis is placed on the development of a more realistic modeling of deformable solids and the exploitation of new mathematical tools. The book presents a balanced appraisal of advances made in various parts of the world. The author contributes his technical expertise, personal recollections, and international experience to this general overview, which is very informative albeit concise.


Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
The Land Clearers and the “Classics”....Pages 1-17
Transition to the 20th Century....Pages 19-30
Rheology and Nonlinear Elasticity....Pages 31-50
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers Spirit....Pages 51-59
Axiomatization and Thermo-Mechanics....Pages 61-77
The British School of Elasticity, Plasticity and Defects: Applied Mathematics....Pages 79-97
The French Masters....Pages 99-115
The Polish Strength....Pages 117-125
German Revival in Continuum Mechanics After WWII....Pages 127-136
European Miscellanei and Asia....Pages 137-166
The Soviet and Russian Schools....Pages 167-197
Continuum Mechanics and Electromagnetism....Pages 199-221
Generalized Continuum Mechanics: Various Paths....Pages 223-241
Configurational Mechanics....Pages 243-265
Relativistic Continuum Mechanics: A 20th Century Adventure....Pages 267-280
Epilogue....Pages 281-288
Back Matter....Pages 289-314

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This overview of the development of continuum mechanics throughout the twentieth century is unique and ambitious. Utilizing a historical perspective, it combines an exposition on the technical progress made in the field and a marked interest in the role played by remarkable individuals and scientific schools and institutions on a rapidly evolving social background. It underlines the newly raised technical questions and their answers, and the ongoing reflections on the bases of continuum mechanics associated, or in competition, with other branches of the physical sciences, including thermodynamics. The emphasis is placed on the development of a more realistic modeling of deformable solids and the exploitation of new mathematical tools. The book presents a balanced appraisal of advances made in various parts of the world. The author contributes his technical expertise, personal recollections, and international experience to this general overview, which is very informative albeit concise.


Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xv
The Land Clearers and the “Classics”....Pages 1-17
Transition to the 20th Century....Pages 19-30
Rheology and Nonlinear Elasticity....Pages 31-50
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers Spirit....Pages 51-59
Axiomatization and Thermo-Mechanics....Pages 61-77
The British School of Elasticity, Plasticity and Defects: Applied Mathematics....Pages 79-97
The French Masters....Pages 99-115
The Polish Strength....Pages 117-125
German Revival in Continuum Mechanics After WWII....Pages 127-136
European Miscellanei and Asia....Pages 137-166
The Soviet and Russian Schools....Pages 167-197
Continuum Mechanics and Electromagnetism....Pages 199-221
Generalized Continuum Mechanics: Various Paths....Pages 223-241
Configurational Mechanics....Pages 243-265
Relativistic Continuum Mechanics: A 20th Century Adventure....Pages 267-280
Epilogue....Pages 281-288
Back Matter....Pages 289-314
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