Providing a modern and comprehensive coverage of continuum mechanics, this volume includes information on "variational principles"--Significant, as this is the

This book offers a recipe for constructing the numerical models for representing the complex nonlinear behavior of structures and their components, represented

In mechanical engineering and structural analysis there is a significant gap between the material models currently used by engineers for industry applications a

Nonlinear Mechanics for Composite Heterogeneous Structures applies both classical and multi-scale finite element analysis to the non-linear, failure response of

In their prior Dover book, the authors provided a self-contained account of classical mechanics; this supplement/update offers a bridge to contemporary mechanic