Introduction to Mechanics of Solid Materials

Lallit Anand joined the MIT faculty in 1982, where he is currently the Rohsenow Professor of Mechanical Engineering. The honors he has received include: ICES Eric Reissner Medal, 1992; ASME Fellow, 2003; Khan International Plasticity Medal, 2007; IIT Kharagpur Distinguished Alumnus Award, 2011; ASME Drucker Medal, 2014; MIT Den Hartog Distinguished Educator Award, 2017; Brown University Engineering Alumni Medal, 2018; and SES Prager Medal, 2018. He was elected to the U.S. National Academy of Engineering in 2018.Ken Kamrin joined the Mechanical Engineering faculty at MIT in 2011, receiving the Class of 1956 Career Development Chair. Notable awards include the 2010 Nicholas Metropolis Award from the American Physical Society, the National Science Foundation CAREER Award, the Eshelby Mechanics Award for Young Faculty, the Ruth and Joel Spira Teaching Award from the MIT School of Engineering, and the ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics Award. Kamrin currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Society of Engineering Science.Sanjay Govindjee currently is the Horace, Dorothy, and Katherine Johnson Endowed Professor in Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. He serves as a consultant to several governmental agencies and private corporations and is also a registered Professional Mechanical Engineer in the state of California. Noteworthy honors include a National Science Foundation Career Award, the inaugural 1998 Zienkiewicz Prize and Medal, an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship 1999, a Berkeley Chancellor's Professorship 2006-2011, and a Humboldt-Forschungspreis (Humboldt Research Award) in 2018.

The book is well-crafted and organized logically. It fills a void in need for a book that is lucid and accessible to undergraduates taking a course in advanced mechanics of materials. The material covered spans a whole range of topics relevant to modern applications of solid mechanics, including fracture and fatigue, rubber elasticity, viscoelasticity, plasticity, and fiber-reinforced composites. This is an excellent book authored by leading authorities in the field who have taught this course at their respective universities. The companion book on example problems is a welcome addition.

• 1: Kinematics and strain 2: Stress and equilibrium 3: Balance laws of forces and moments for small deformations 4: Stress and strain are symmetric second-order tensors 5: Isotropic linear elasticity 6: Elastic deformation of thick-walled cylinders 7: Stress concentration 8: Wave propagation in isotropic elastic bodies 9: Limits to elastic response 10: One-dimensional plasticity 11: Physical basis of metal plasticity 12: Three-dimensional rate-independent plasticity 13: Three-dimensional rate-dependent plasticity 14: Introduction to fracture mechanics 15: Linear elastic fracture mechanics 16: Energy-based approach to fracture 17: Fatigue 18: Linear viscoelasticity 19: Linear viscoelasticity under oscillatory strain and stress 20: Temperature dependence of linear viscoelastic response 21: Three-dimensional linear viscoelasticity 22: Rubber elasticity 23: Continuous-fiber polymer-matrix composites Appendices A: Thin-walled pressure vessels B: Elastic bending of beams C: Elastic buckling of columns D: Torsion of circular elastic shafts E: Castigliano's theorems F: Elasticity in different coordinate systems G: Hardness of a material H: Stress intensity factors for some crack configurations I: MATLAB codes