Nonlinear Continua

This book offers a modern presentation of Continuum Mechanics, oriented towards numerical applications in the nonlinear analysis of solids, structures and fluid mechanics. General curvilinear coordinator kinematics of the continuum deformation, including pull-back / push-forward transformations between different configurations, stress and strain measures, balance principles, constitutive relations and variational principles are developed using general curvilinear coordinates. Although the mathematical presentation is quite rigorous; an effort is made to link formal developments with engineering physical intuition.

Modern and rigorous presentation of nonlinear continuum mechanics Intended to provide the basis for Computational Techniques

Inhalt
Kinematics of the continuous media.- Stress Tensor.- Balance principles.- Constitutive relations.- Variational methods.