Continuum Mechanics through the Ages - From the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century: From Hydraulics to Plasticity (Solid Mechanics and Its Applications #223)
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- Synopsis
- Mixing scientific, historic and socio-economic vision, thisunique book complements two previously published volumes on the history ofcontinuum mechanics from this distinguished author. In this volume, Gérard A. Maugin looks at the period from the renaissance to the twentieth century and heincludes an appraisal of the ever enduring competition between molecular andcontinuum modelling views. Chapters trace early works in hydraulics and fluid mechanics not covered in theother volumes and the author investigates experimental approaches, essentiallybefore the introduction of a true concept of stress tensor. The treatment ofsuch topics as the viscoelasticity of solids and plasticity, fracture theory,and the role of geometry as a cornerstone of the field, are all explored. Readers will find a kind of socio-historical appraisal of the seminalcontributions by our direct masters in the second half of the twentiethcentury. The analysis of the teaching and research texts by Duhem, Poincaré andHilbert on continuum mechanics is key: these provide the most valuabledocumentary basis on which a revival of continuum mechanics and itsformalization were offered in the late twentieth century. Altogether, the three volumes offer a generous conspectus of the developmentsof continuum mechanics between the sixteenth century and the dawn of thetwenty-first century. Mechanical engineers, applied mathematicians andphysicists alike will all be interested in this work which appeals to allcurious scientists for whom continuum mechanics as a vividly evolving sciencestill has its own mysteries.
- Copyright:
- 2016
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- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9783319265933
- Related ISBNs:
- 9783319265919
- Publisher:
- Springer International Publishing, Cham
- Date of Addition:
- 07/20/18
- Copyrighted By:
- Springer
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Science
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.