Elasticity

Martin H. Sadd is Professor Emeritus of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Rhode Island. He received his Ph.D. in mechanics from the Illinois Institute of Technology and began his academic career at Mississippi State University. In 1979 he joined the faculty at Rhode Island and served as department chair from 1991 to 2000. Professor Sadd’s teaching background is in the area of solid mechanics with emphasis in elasticity, continuum mechanics, wave propagation, and computational methods. He has taught elasticity at two academic institutions, in several industries, and at a government laboratory. Professor Sadd’s research has been in computational modeling of materials under static and dynamic loading conditions using finite, boundary, and discrete element methods. Much of his work has involved micromechanical modeling of geomaterials including granular soil, rock, and concretes. He has authored more than 75 publications and has given numerous presentations at national and international meetings.

Part 1: Foundations and elementary applications
1. Mathematical Preliminaries
2. Deformation: Displacements and Strains
3. Stress and Equilibrium
4. Material Behavior – Linear Elastic Solids
5. Formulation and Solution Strategies
6. Strain Energy and Related Principles
7. Two-Dimensional Formulation
8. Two-Dimensional Problem Solution
9. Extension, Torsion, and Flexure of Elastic Cylinders

Part 2: Advanced applications
10. Complex Variable Methods
11. Anisotropic Elasticity
12. Thermoelasticity
13. Displacement Potentials and Stress Functions: Applications to Three-Dimensional Problems
14. Nonhomogeneous Elasticity
15. Micromechanics Applications
16. Numerical Finite and Boundary Element Methods