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Computational mechanics
The digital computer revolutionized the practice of many areas of engineering and science, and solid…
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Viscoelasticity
The German physicist Wilhelm Weber noticed in 1835 that a load applied to a silk…
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Dislocations
The Italian elastician and mathematician Vito Volterra introduced in 1905 the theory of the elastostatic…
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Stress concentrations and fracture
In 1898 G. Kirsch derived the solution for the stress distribution around a circular hole…
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The general theory of elasticity
Linear elasticity as a general three-dimensional theory began to be developed in the early 1820s…
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Beams, columns, plates, and shells
The 1700s and early 1800s were a productive period during which the mechanics of simple…
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Concepts of stress, strain, and elasticity
The English scientist Robert Hooke discovered in 1660, but published only in 1678, that for…
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Mechanics of solids
Mechanics of solids, science concerned with the stressing, deformation, and failure of solid materials and…
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Mean Heat Capacity & Pressure Effect
The use of mean heat capacities often facilitates the calculation of sensible-heat changes; mean heat capacity over the temperature range t1…
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The Heat Capacities of Solids
The heat capacity of a substance is related to the question of how much energy…