The first part of this textbook presents the mathematical background
needed to precisely describe the basic problem of continuum
thermomechanics. The book then concentrates on developing governing
equations for the problem dealing in turn with the kinematics of
material continuum, description of the state of stress, discussion of
the fundamental conservation laws of underlying physics, formulation of
initial-boundary value problems and presenting weak (variational)
formulations. In the final part the crucial issue of developing
techniques for solving specific problems of thermomechanics is
addressed. To this aim the authors present a discretized formulation of
the governing equations, discuss the fundamentals of the finite element
method and develop some basic algorithms for solving algebraic and
ordinary differential equations typical of problems on hand. Theoretical
derivations are followed by carefully prepared computational exercises
and solutions.