Principles of Solid Mechanics

Innovative applications such as composites, prestressing, silicon chips, and materials with memory keep the mechanics of solids a diverse, powerful discipline at the forefront of current research. Principles of Solid Mechanics offers an in-depth treatment of the application of the full-range theory of deformable solids for analysis and design. Unlike other texts, it is not a civil or mechanical engineering text, but both. It treats not only analysis but incorporates design along with experimental observation. The author focuses on basic concepts and applications, simple yet unsolved problems, inverse strategies for optimum design, unanswered questions, and unresolved paradoxes.Richards, Rowland, Jr. is the author of 'Principles of Solid Mechanics' with ISBN 9780849301148 and ISBN 0849301149.