Topics in Finite Elasticity

✍ Scribed by Michael Hayes, Giuseppe Saccomandi (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Series: International Centre for Mechanical Sciences 424
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

More than fifty years ago, Professor R. S. Rivlin pioneered developments in both the theory and experiments of rubber elasticity. These together with his other fundamental studies contributed to a revitalization of the theory of finite elasticity, which had been dormant, since the basic understanding was completed in the nineteenth century. This book with chapters on foundation, models, universal results, wave propagation, qualitative theory and phase transitions, indicates that the subject he reinvigorated has remainded remarkably vibran and has continued to present significant deep mathematical and experimental challenges.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages ii-vii
Elements of the Theory of Finite Strain....Pages 1-30
Seven Lectures on Finite Elasticity....Pages 31-93
Universal Solutions and Relations in Finite Elasticity....Pages 95-130
Finite-Amplitude Waves in Mooney-Rivlin and Hadamard Materials....Pages 131-167
Elements of Elastic Stability Theory....Pages 169-230
Story of f : the driving force on a phase boundary....Pages 231-244

✦ Subjects

Mechanics