Elasticity: Theory, Applications, and Numerics

by Martin H. Sadd Ph.D.

Overview

Elasticity: Theory, Applications, and Numerics, Fifth Edition continues its market-leading tradition of concisely presenting and developing the linear theory of elasticity, moving from solution methodologies, formulations, and strategies into applications of contemporary interest, such as fracture mechanics, anisotropic and composite materials, micromechanics, nonhomogeneous graded materials, and computational methods.

Developed for a one- or two-semester graduate elasticity course, this new edition has been revised with new worked examples, exercises, and new or expanded coverage in recent areas of interest. Using MATLAB® software, numerical activities in the text are integrated with analytical problem solutions, and new symbolic software has now been introduced.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780443132452
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	05/13/2025
Edition description:	5th ed.
Pages:	648
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Martin H. Sadd is Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rhode Island. He received his Ph.D. in mechanics from the Illinois Institute of Technology and began his academic career at Mississippi State University. In 1979 he joined the faculty at Rhode Island and served as department chair from 1991 to 2000. Professor Sadd’s teaching background is in the area of solid mechanics with emphasis in elasticity, continuum mechanics, wave propagation, and computational methods. He has taught elasticity at two academic institutions, in several industries, and at a government laboratory. Professor Sadd’s research has been in computational modeling of materials under static and dynamic loading conditions using finite, boundary, and discrete element methods. Much of his work has involved micromechanical modeling of geomaterials including granular soil, rock, and concretes. He has authored more than 75 publications and has given numerous presentations at national and international meetings.

Table of Contents

Mathematical Preliminaries; Deformation: Displacements and Strains; Stress and Equilibrium; Material Behavior-Linear Elastic Solids; Formulation and Solution Strategies; Strain Energy and Related Principles; Two-Dimensional Formulation; Two-Dimensional Problem Solution; Extension, Torsion and Flexure of Elastic Cylinders; Complex Variable Methods; Anisotropic Elasticity; Thermoelasticity; Displacement Potentials and Stress Functions; Nonhomogeneous Elasticity; Micromechanics Applications; Numerical Finite and Boundary Element Methods; Appendix A: Basic Field Equations in Cartesian, Cylindrical and Spherical Coordinates; Appendix B: Transformation of Field Variables Between Cartesian, Cylindrical and Spherical Components; Appendix C: MATLAB Primer; Appendix D: Review of Mechanics of Materials

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The leading introductory textbook on general elasticity theory and behavior

Editorial Reviews

This book is a welcome addition to the set of textbooks available to beginning graduate students and advanced undergraduates in mechanical engineering. I have previously taught the subject of elasticity from textbooks written by Barber, Salughter, and Shames with frequent references to the classics by Timoshenko, Love, Sokolnikoff, and Greenand Zerna. However, students have found these books either too difficult to understand or too dated in their notation. When I received the new textbook by Professor Sadd, I read it briefly and then handed it over to one of my graduate students who was preparingfor his qualifying examinations. His response was unqualified admiration of the ease with which he was able to navigate the book and grasp its contents. - Biswajit Banerjee - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Utah

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