Mechanics of Solids: Volume III: Theory of Viscoelasticity, Plasticity, Elastic Waves, and Elastic Stability

by Peter J. Chen and Clifford A. Truesdell

Reissue of Encyclopedia of Physics / Handbuch der Physik, Volume VIa The mechanical response of solids was first reduced to an organized science of fairly general scope in the nineteenth century. The theory of small elastic deformations is in the main the creation of CAUCHY, who, correcting and simplifying the work of NAVIER and POISSON, through an astounding application of conjoined scholarship, originality, and labor greatly extended in breadth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540131620
• ISBN13: 9783540131625
• Release Date: June 1984
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 647 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.7" x 9.6"