Continuum Mechanics

Edited by : José Merodio,

Department of Continuum Mechanics and Structures, E.T.S. Ing. Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Giuseppe Saccomandi,

Sezione di Ingegneria Industriale, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione, niversità degli Studi di Lecce, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy

1. Introduction to Continuum Mechanics

J. Merodio, Department of Continuum Mechanics and Structures, E.T.S. Ing. Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

G. Saccomandi, Sezione di Ingegneria Industriale, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Innovazione, niversità degli Studi di Lecce, Via per Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, Italy

2. History of Continuum mechanics

R. Soutas-Little, Biomechanics Evaluation Laboratory and Biodynamics Laboratory at Michigan State University, College of Orthopedic Medicine, USA

3. Kinematics

D. Steigmann, University of California at Berkeley, USA

4. Balance laws

D. Steigmann, University of California at Berkeley,USA

5. Thermodynamics

Luca Deseri, University of Molise and University of Trento, Italy

6. Constitutive Theories:Basic Principles

I-Shih Liu, Instituto de Mathematica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

7. Basic constitutive equations

J. Goicolea, Mecánica de Medios Continuos, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid,Spain

8. Linear Elastostatics

J.R.Barber, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan,USA

9. Linear Elastodynamics and Waves

M. Destrade, Laboratoire de Modélisation en Mécanique, CNRS (UMR7607), Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France.

10. Elementary fluid dynamics

G. Bergeles, Nat. Technical University, Dept. Mech. Engineering, Athens, Greece

11. Thermoelasticity

D. Iesan, Department of Mathematics, Al. I. Cuza University, Lasi, Romania

12. Nonlinear Elasticity

Alan Wineman, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, USA

13. Applications to Solid Mechanics

M. Elices , Materials Science & Technology at the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain

14. Applications to Fluid Mechanics

I. Losada and J. A. Revilla, Dpto. de Ciencias y Tecnicas del Agua y del Medio Ambiente, E.T.S. Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain

15. Turbulence

P. Cinnella, Department of Aerospace Engineering,, Missisippi State University,USA

16. Coupled fields

R. Ogden, Department of Mathematics, University of Glasgow, UK

17. Mechanics of Soft Matter

P. Biscari , Dipartimento di Matematica, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

18. Configurational Forces

G. Maugin, Laboratory of Mechanical Modeling, Pierre & Marie Curie University, France

19. Implicit constitutive equations

K. R. Rajagopal, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA

20. Mathematical Issues

R. Quintanilla , Department of Applied Mathematics II, UPC Terrassa, Spain

R.J. Knops, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, UK