Theory of Elasticity: Volume 7

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A comprehensive textbook covering not only the ordinary theory of the deformation of solids, but also some topics not usually found in textbooks on the subject, such as thermal conduction and viscosity in solids.


 

Contents

2 The stress tensor
6
6 Deformations with change of temperature
15
8 Equilibrium of an elastic medium bounded by a plane
25
10 The elastic properties of crystals
33
12 The equation of equilibrium for a plate
45
14 Large deflections of plates
51
16
59
20 Small deflections of rods
81
35 The absorption of sound in solids
137
36 Highly viscous fluids
142
MECHANICS OF LIQUID CRYSTALS 37 Static deformations of nematics
144
38 Straight disclinations in nematics
147
39 Nonsingular axially symmetrical solution of the equilibrium equations for a nematic
152
40 Topological properties of disclinations
156
41 Equations of motion of nematics
158
42 Dissipative coefficients of nematics
163

ELASTIC WAVES
87
23 Elastic waves in crystals
93
25
99
The action of a stress field on a dislocation
116
Distribution of interacting dislocations
124
32 The equation of thermal conduction in solids
133
33 Thermal conduction in crystals
134
34 Viscosity of solids
135
43 Propagation of small oscillations in nematics
165
44 Mechanics of cholesterics
170
45 Elastic properties of smectics
172
46 Dislocations in smectics
177
47 Equations of motion of smectics
179
48 Sound in smectics
182
Index
185
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