Providing a modern and comprehensive coverage of continuum mechanics, this volume includes information on "variational principles"--Significant, as this is the

This book offers a recipe for constructing the numerical models for representing the complex nonlinear behavior of structures and their components, represented

In mechanical engineering and structural analysis there is a significant gap between the material models currently used by engineers for industry applications a

The perfect introduction to the theory and computer programming for the dynamic simulation of nonlinear solid mechanics.

Although the problem of stability and bifurcation is well understood in Mechanics, very few treatises have been devoted to stability and bifurcation analysis in