After providing the necessary mathematical background needed, the book
discusses kinematics, balance laws and constitutive relations for simple
materials. Major emphasis is placed on discussing relatively new ideas
such as material frame-indifference, the implications of the second law
of themodynamics, material symmetry etc. The text shows how under
suitable assumptions the classical theories of fluid mechanics, solid
mechanics (including the linear theory of elasticity), and rigid-body
dynamics follow from the general continuum equations. This book is
intended as an advanced undergraduate (or a graduate level) textbook in
continuum mechanics and its applications. NEW TO THE SECOND EDITION: A
number of new topics have been discussed, some of which are: *
Higher-order (in particular, fourth-order) tensors * Differentiation of
tensors * Exact solutions to problems in nonlinear linearized
elasticity * Components of tensors and their derivatives with respect
to curvilinear coordinates * Conversion of tensorial expressions to
engineering form