For purchasing information or to request inspection copies, please contact the publisher.Īs in the second edition, I encourage the reader to become familiar with the use of symbolic mathematical languages such as Maple and Mathematica, since these tools open up the possibility of solving considerably more complex and hence interesting and realistic elasticity problems. The full Table of Contents, a sample chapter, and other information can be accessed here. The other major addition is a new chapter on variational methods, including the use of the Rayleigh-Ritz method and Castigliano's second theorem in developing approximate solutions to elasticity problems. The complex variable methods and notation are also used in the development of a hierarchical treatment of three-dimensional problems for prismatic bars of fairly general cross-section in a later chapter. I have emphasised the relation between the complex and real (Airy and Prandtl) stress functions, including algorithms for obtaining the complex function for a stress field for which the real stress function is already known. In keeping with the style of the rest of the book, I have endeavoured to present this material in a such a way as to be usable by a reader with minimal previous experience of complex analysis who wishes to solve specific elasticity problems.
This new edition contains four additional chapters, including two concerned with the use of complex-variable methods in two-dimensional elasticity.
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