Introduction to Continuum Mechanics

by Erhard Krempl and W. Michael Lai

Book Overview

Continuum Mechanics is a branch of physical mechanics that describes the macroscopic mechanical behavior of solid or fluid materials considered to be continuously distributed. It is fundamental to the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0750628944
• ISBN13: 9780750628945
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.0" x 9.8"

Customer Reviews

Good book

From what I've read so far (the first 80 pages), this book is nice. The notation is relatively unambiguous, and many examples are included to make concepts clear. This book fills you in from the beginning rather than assuming you already have some background knowledge.

Excellent Book

This is the best text that I have found for introducing continnuum mechanics and tensor notation to students. I have used this text in both Continuum Mechanics and Elasticity courses. Very clear explanations and examples to make the student proficient in conntinuum mechanics. I would love to see it expanded to include metric tensors and Christoffel symbols.

Excellent Book!

I have used this book in Dr. Lai's into to elasticity class at Columbia University. It is chock full of well written text and many example problems that are worth looking at! I finally understand what eigenvalues and eigenvectors are good for!

Excellant text, but far too expensive!!

This continuum mechanics text is the best I've read. Comprehensible and thorough - much more so than others I've read. Only one problem - $120 is about $35 too high! This text could rate a 10, if it cost $85.