Elasticity and Plasticity of Large Deformations

This updated and revised second edition of Elasticity and Plasticity of Large Deformations offers a careful introduction to modern non-linear mechanics. It presents in detail the used mathematical tools, such as tensor algebra and analysis.

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This careful and detailed introduction to non-linear continuum mechanics and to elasticity and platicity, with a unique mathematical foundation, starts right from the basics.
The general theory of mechanical behaviour is particularized for the broad and important classes of elasticity and plasticity.
Brings the reader to the forefront of today's knowledge.
A list of notations and an index help the reader finding specific topics.