Deformable Bodies and Their Material Behavior

This comprehensive and detailed book presents a practical introduction to the mechanical behavior of a deformable body and introduces the key tools designers need to avoid material functional failure. It presents detailed steps in mechanical test evaluations of material properties, and provides a historical perspective to the definitions and models designers use. Introduction.

Chapter 1. The Stress Tensor.

Chapter 2. Strain.

Chapter 3. Stress—Strain Relations.

Chapter 4. Linear Elasticity.

Chapter 5. Applications of Linear Elasticity and Its Approximations.

Chapter 6. Thin-Walled Members.

Chapter 7. Energy Methods.

Chapter 8. Introduction to the Finite Element Method for Numerical Approximations.

Chapter 9. Plasticity.

Chapter 10. Fracture.

Chapter 11. Fatigue.

Chapter 12. Creep.

Chapter 13. Static Stability.

Appendix: Curvature.

Index.

Henry W. Haslach Jr. and Ronald W. Armstrong are the authors of Deformable Bodies and Their Material Behavior, published by Wiley.