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Summary
Summary
Text presenting key aspects of inelastic solid mechanics centered around viscoelasticity, creep, viscoplasticity, and plasticity. Suitable for seniors and graduate students. Math demands are modest. (c) by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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Choice Review
Shames and Cozzarelli's effort constitutes a follow-up to strength of materials or stress analysis courses. Lucidly written by these experienced authors, this book, intended for senior undergraduate and graduate students, seems to be more appropriate for the latter. Its clear competitor is Y.C. Fung's Foundation of Solid Mechanics (1965) but the two works differ sufficiently to be able to coexist in a library. Fung gives a stronger theoretical background and includes such topics missing from the book under review: general tensors, finite strain, elastic potentials, energy theorems, Muskehelishvili's method, calculus of variations, and thermodynamics. On the other hand, Shames and Cozzarelli put more emphasis on material properties and, in particular, on viscous behavior of materials. There is also a fair amount of discussion on flexure of beams, but thin plate theory is practically ignored. A modest number of references, mostly to other texts; adequate illustrations. A generous selection of problems at the end of each chapter is a welcome feature. A useful addition for a graduate-level library.-R. Solecki, University of Connecticut
Table of Contents
| Preface |
| Part I Fundamentals |
| 1 Introduction to Cartesian Tensors |
| 2 Stress |
| 3 Strain |
| Part II Useful Constitutive Laws |
| 4 Behavior of Engineering Materials |
| 5 Linear Elastic Behavior |
| 6 Linear Viscoelastic Behavior |
| 7 Introduction to Nonlinear Viscoelastic Behavior:Creep |
| 8 Plasticity |
| 9 Boundary Value Problems |
| Part III Applications to Simple Structural Members |
| 10 Flexure of Beams |
| 11 Torsion of Shafts |
| 12 Plane Strain |
| 13 Plane Stress |
| Appendixes |
