I attach some class notes developed by the late Professor Donald Carlson from which many generations of students at the University of Illinois learnt Continuum Mechanics.

Linear algebra is significant to many aspects of mechanics.  For some years I have been using the book by Shilov.  But this book may or may not be a good one to recommend to a student, depending on his or her prior experience.  On StackExchange Mathematics, there are several excellent threads discussing textbooks of linear algebra.  A particular recommendation was made for

Hi,

I am looking for a closed form analytical solution for the critical bucking load of a timoshenko beam with clamped-free BC.

please help me i'm in rush!!!

Thanks in advance

Navid

Dear blog-readers,



As you may know, our research group has, with my leaving the UK, moved in part to Luxembourg, where I am now based. I am of course keeping close ties with Cardiff, where Pierre Kerfriden is now taking care of the group.



It has been a fun and productive year, and I thank you all for contributing to this through numerous discussions emanating from this blog. I wish you all the best for 2014, and hope that it will bring you joy in the work you do.



Best regards from Lausanne where we are enjoying a few days off.

Tunable Stiffness of Electrorheological Elastomers by Designing Mesostructures 

There is a SIAM conference on life science on August, 2014. See website  http://www.siam.org/meetings/ls14/



I want to organize a minisymposium on topic of "soft tissue modeling
by bio-mechanics". The organizer is responsible for inviting three more
speakers. I would like to know if any of you have interest considering yourself as one of the speakers for a 25
minute talk. If the application of this minisymposium is successful,

hi every body:

What's your idea?  The virtual displacement is special case of hamilton's principle or the hamilton's principle come from virtual displacement?  Or, Which is older?

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