Introduction to Continuum Mechanics 4th Edition

This book is great for and introductory course. The examples convey the ideas, the tensor analysis is developed throughout the text but it is not excessive (the good lord knows Tensors can be one or two courses on their own). The problems at the end of the chapter are ALL workable, and each of them makes you use some of the analysis developed. That tells me that the author has been around teaching many, many years, and is really interested in the students gathering a solid understanding of continuum mechanics. This book would be useful for folks that have switched fields (a EE/ME/Aero turned acoustician, or turned Material Scientist), who went through the standard curriculum (continuum mechanics has been historically taught by its own department -say at U of I, you can get a PhD in the field) or in the Aerospace. Once thought a "dead" field - sensors, and smart materials force the folks to either review or learn (like me).

This is the best text I have been able to find for the course I am teaching at the first year graduate level in Continuum Mechanics. the authors explain the material in excellent detail without a lot of obscure notation and an over emphasis on tensor analysis. I would have given them 5 stars if there weren't still a few typos in a few of the equations. that always scares me because I do not want to derive the equations every time I use them.

started with no knowledge of continuum mechanics and this book laid out a solid and reliable presentation of the material with very beautiful use of tensors. this book has worked for me as a stand-alone source of learning the subject without any prof or use of Utube. I have gone through half of it and noticed just one minor typo.there are good number of examples in the book. I would strongly recommend it to any beginner . I wish it had come with a separate practice book to accompany it.

The book arrived faster, in better conditions, and was cheaper than what I expected.

Excellent reference for a mind-bogglingly difficult topic.

This book provides a very lucid introduction to continuum mechanics, with a lot of worked out examples to help understanding the somewhat abstract content of this subject. I highly recommend this book to those who learn continuum mechanics for the first time.

very good.

The book is in good condition. There is no problem at all.

Bei meiner Suche nach einem Lehrbuch, das man Studierenden als Einführung in dieses doch eher komplizierte, weil mathematisch geprägte Thema empfehlen kann hat sich dieses Werk als das Beste herausgestellt (auch wenn es in Englisch ist).Das Buch glänzt durch eine große Anzahl an Beispielen, die die Anwendung der unmittelbar zuvor hergeleiteten Zusammenhänge demonstrieren und daher unbedingt studiert werden sollten. Darüber hinaus finden sich am Ende jeden Kapitels Aufgaben zur Übung. Zumindestens sofern man das Buch von Anfang an liest ist somit Alles gut zu verstehen.Alle wesentlichen Themen der Kontinuumsmechanik und Grundlagen der Materialtheorie werden abgedeckt, sowohl für Festköper als auch Fluide.Einziger Schönheitsfehler ist die teilweise Verwendung anderer Formelzeichen als im Deutschen üblich, bsp. T statt sigma für die Cauchy-Spannung.

Es un libro que contiene todo lo que necesito para entender la mecánica del medio continuo, muy práctico para ingeniería mecánica