Up until now we have not said much about the way structures behave in the socalled “real…

The key to resolving our predicament, when faced with a statically indeterminate problem - one…

A beam is a structural element like the truss member but, unlike the latter, it…

We are ready to start talking business, to buy a loaf of bread. Up until…

The correct response is zero: For a particle at rest, or moving with constant velocity…

The final equations of the purely mechanical theory of linear elasticity (i.e., when coupling with…

When elastic response under arbitrary deformation gradients is considered—because rotations, if not strains, are large…

In thermodynamic terminology, a state of purely elastic material response corresponds to an equilibrium state,…

Temperature change can also cause strain. In an isotropic material the thermally induced extensional strains…