This treatise attempts to portray the ideas and general principles of thetheory of materials within the framework of phenomenological continuummechanics. It is ... » 

This treatise attempts to portray the ideas and general principles of thetheory of materials within the framework of phenomenological continuummechanics. It is a wellwritten mathematical introduction to classicalcontinuum mechanics and deals with concepts such as elasticity plasticityviscoelasticity and viscoplasticity in nonlinear materials. The aim of ageneral theory of material behaviour is to provide a classified range ofpossibilities from which a user can select the constitutive model that appliesbest. The book will be invaluable to graduate students of materials science inengineering and in physics. The new edition includes additional analyticalmethods in the classical theory of viscoelasticity. This leads to a new theoryof finite linear viscoelasticity of incompressible isotropic materials.Anisotropic viscoplasticity is completely reformulated and extended to ageneral constitutive theory that covers crystal plasticity as a special case. «