Elastic and Inelastic Stress Analysis
Irving H. Shames, Francis A.
Cozzarelli
ISBN: 1560326867
This advanced text presents certain key
aspects of inelastic solid mechanics centred around visco-elasticity,
creep, visco-plasticity and plasticity. Divided into three parts
consisting of the fundamentals of elasticity, useful constitutive
laws and the applications to simple structural members, the book
details the efficient conjunction of elastic and inelastic solid
mechanics with the use of the correspondence principles linking
visco-elasticity with elasticity. Engineers are becoming
increasingly interested in materials that are more likely to
behave inelastically than the traditional metallic minerals. Such
materials include plastics, synthetic rubbers, composites, metals
at elevated temperatures, glacial ice and biomaterials. This,
along with more modern technology puts structural components into
more hostile environments, creates the need to study the
micro-scope inelastic effects and the microscopic aspects of
material behaviour.
