Applied Mechanics of Solids / Edition 1

by Allan F. Bower

Overview

The second edition of Applied Mechanics of Solids provides a concise description of all the concepts needed to predict how solid materials deform and fail under stress. With its companion volume of solved example problems, it is an invaluable class textbook or reference for personal study or review.

With the aid of computer simulations, design engineers can predict stresses, deformation, and failure in structural, mechanical, and bio-mechanical components with a few keystrokes. But simulations are built on sophisticated mathematics, physics, and numerical methods, and always involve some judicious approximations. Engineers need a thorough grasp of these concepts to know how to set up their simulations correctly and to interpret their predictions.   This book contains all the theory they need to make the best use of their simulations.

Beginning with a description of the physical and mathematical laws that govern deformation in solids, the text presents models of material behavior; solutions to important boundary value problems using classical methods of analysis; a detailed description of the finite element method; fracture mechanics and failure analysis; as well as structural theories of rods, plates and shells. 

 All chapters in this new edition contain additional material, but the most substantial changes are to Chapter 8: “Finite Element Analysis: Theory and Implementation,” which now covers topics such as locking-resistant finite elements for simulations of solids subjected to large deformations; structural elements (trusses, beams, and plates); as well as methods for enforcing constraints in finite element simulations, cohesive zone models of interface fracture, and contact elements.  In addition, a new companion volume provides over 400 example problems with their solutions. The text is supplemented by example finite element codes posted on GitHub, which demonstrate all the finite element algorithms described in the text.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781439802472
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/05/2009
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	820
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 10.10(h) x 1.70(d)

About the Author

Allan F. Bower is Emeritus Professor of Engineering at Brown University, where he taught in the undergraduate mechanical engineering program and the graduate program in mechanics of solids.  His research interests encompassed several areas in solid mechanics, such as the strength of contacting surfaces; thin films for microelectronics; metal forming; and mechanical behavior of energy storage materials. He also enjoyed working with Brown's talented undergraduate students in Brown’s large introductory engineering courses for many years, and was the recipient of a number of teaching awards, including Brown’s Royce family professorship in teaching excellence. 

Table of Contents

1 Overview of Solid Mechanics

2 Governing Equations

3 Constitutive Models – Relations between Stress and Strain

4 Solutions to simple boundary and initial value problems for elastic solids

5 Solutions for linear elastic solids

6 Solutions for plastic solids

7 Finite Element Analysis: An Introduction

8 Finite Element Analysis: Theory and Implementation

9 Modeling Material Failure 

10 Solutions for Rods, Beams, Membranes, Plates and Shells

Appendix A Review of Vectors and Matrices

Appendix B Introduction to Tensors and their properties

Appendix C Index Notation for Vector and Tensor Operations

Appendix D Vectors and Tensor Operations in Polar Coordinates

Appendix E Miscellaneous derivations

Editorial Reviews

"It’s an impressive piece of work. It covers an immense amount of material and is well written."
—James R. Barber, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA

"A valuable treatise in mechanics of solids."
—David L. McDowell, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA

"This book is great for materials science and engineering students who are interested in both classic and state-of-the-art materials research. With both in-depth discussion and authoritative summary, it will be widely used in teaching and research in theoretical and computational mechanics of materials."
—Yanfei Gao, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA

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