Continuum Mechanics for Engineers

G. Thomas Mase, Ph.D. is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California.Dr. Mase is a member of numerous professional societies including the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Society for Engineering Education, International Sports Engineering Association, Society of Experimental Mechanics, Pi Tau Sigma, and Sigma Xi.Ronald E. Smelser, Ph.D., P.E. is Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the William States Lee College of Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and has his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 1978.Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Ph.D. is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lafayette College. She earned her PhD in applied physics from the University of California, Berkeley.

• Continuum Theory. Essential Mathematics. Stress Principles. Kinematics of Deformation and Motion. Fundamental Laws and Equations. Linear Elasticity. Classical Fluids. Nonlinear Elasticity. Linear Viscoelasticity. Plasticity. Appendix A: General Tensors. Appendix B: Viscoelastic Creep and Relaxation. Index.