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01 Continuum Mechanics

This website presents principles of continuum mechanics with a focus on metals and viscoelastic materials. It is intended as lecture notes for a graduate course in continuum mechanics for engineers. The website covers topics such as stress, strain, deformations, material behavior, and applications to problems like beam bending and column buckling. It also links to resources on related topics like fracture mechanics.

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01 Continuum Mechanics

This website presents principles of continuum mechanics with a focus on metals and viscoelastic materials. It is intended as lecture notes for a graduate course in continuum mechanics for engineers. The website covers topics such as stress, strain, deformations, material behavior, and applications to problems like beam bending and column buckling. It also links to resources on related topics like fracture mechanics.

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with emphasis on metals & viscoelastic materials

Description
This website presents the principles of finite deformation continuum
mechanics with many example applications to metals and incompressible
viscoelastic materials (rubber). It can serve as lecture notes for a graduate
level course in continuum mechanics for engineers interested in the subject.

Author Bob McGinty, PhD, PE


Email [email protected]

Table of Contents
I. INTRODUCTION
Fracture Mechanics Website
A. Interactive Calculation Pages
Visit www.fracturemechanics.org, my new
II. BASIC MATHEMATICS website on fracture mechanics. It is under
development, but will eventually contain
A. Vectors information on linear and nonlinear fracture
B. Matrices & Tensors mechanics, as well as fatigue crack growth.
C. Vector Calculus
D. Tensor Notation (Basic)
E. Tensor Notation (Advanced)
F. Divergence Theorem Homework
G. Coordinate Transformations
H. Transformation Matrices Homework #1
I. Cylindrical Coordinates Homework #2
J. Fourier Transforms Homework #3
Homework #4
III. INTRODUCTORY MECHANICS Homework #5
Homework #6
A. Stress Homework #7
B. Strain Homework #8
C. Principal Stresses & Strains Homework #9
D. Hooke's Law Homework #10
Homework #11
IV. DEFORMATIONS AND STRAIN Homework #12
Homework #13
A. Deformation Gradients
B. Polar Decompositions
C. Rotation Matrices
D. Finite Element Mapping Homework Solutions
E. Small Scale Strains
F. Green & Almansi Strains Homework #1 Solutions
G. Principal Strains & Invariants Homework #2 Solutions
H. Hydrostatic & Deviatoric Strains Homework #3 Solutions
I. Velocity Gradients Homework #4 Solutions
J. True Strain Homework #5 Solutions
K. Material Derivatives Homework #6 Solutions
L. Special Strain Topics Homework #7 Solutions
Homework #8 Solutions
V. STRESS Homework #9 Solutions
Homework #10 Solutions
A. Stress Introduction Homework #11 Solutions
B. Traction Vectors Homework #12 Solutions
C. Energetic Conjugates Homework #13 Solutions
D. Stress Transformations
E. Principal Stresses & Invariants
F. Hydrostatic & Deviatoric Stresses
G. Von Mises Stress Kick-Off Survey
H. Corotational Derivatives
I. Equilibrium Here is the MS-Word file. And here is the text.

VI. MATERIAL BEHAVIOR

A. Continuity Equation
B. Navier Stokes Equation
C. Thermodynamics
D. Hooke's Law
E. Metal Plasticity
F. Mooney-Rivlin Models
G. Dynamic Material Properties
H. Materials and Tire Behavior

VII. MISCELLANEOUS TOPICS

A. Fasteners
B. Strain Gauges
C. Beam Bending
D. Column Buckling
E. Eccentric Column Buckling

Textbook
Introduction to the Mechanics of a Continuous Medium, Lawrence E. Malvern, 1969.

Miscellaneous Links
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Category:Continuum_mechanics
http://www.thefullwiki.org/Continuum_mechanics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum_mechanics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_strain_theory
Do Not Disturb Pages (fun stuff!)

Fracture Mechanics Website


Visit our sister website, www.fracturemechanics.org, for information on fracture mechanics. It is under development, but will eventually
contain information on linear and nonlinear fracture mechanics, as well as fatigue crack growth mechanisms.

A Note About The Web Technologies Used Here

Two relatively new web technologies are used on these pages. The first is Scalable Vector Graphics, or SVG. Pages on this
site will display SVG files in compatible browsers, and PNG files in incompatible ones. The advantage of SVG over PNG is
that SVG graphics can be scaled to any size without the onset of pixelization. SVG files used here were created using
Inkscape, an excellent graphics program available free on the internet here.

The second new technology used here is MathJax, a Javascript based display engine for mathematical equations
programmed in the LaTeX language. MathJax eliminates the need to display equations as GIF or PNG graphics files (or even
SVG for that matter). MathJax requires only the following line of code in the <HEAD> segment of a webpage.

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js?config=default"></script>

It is then possible to program any math expression in the HTML source using the LaTeX language. For example, typing \
(\sigma_{ij}\)produces ij .

I'm often asked what software I used to develop the webpages. The answer is... the Vim editor (www.vim.org). Vim is the
Windows-based version of the venerable Vi editor on Unix, and now Linux systems. I typed everything by hand.

Bob McGinty
February 2012

Table of Contents
Eccentric Buckling Introduction

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