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Unofficial ERRATA and Commentary for

Continuum Mechanics for Engineers--3rd ed.

G. T. Mase, R. E. Smelser, and G. E. Mase, CRC, 2010

ISBN: 978-1-4200-8538-9 

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1420085387/booksoncomposite 

See attachement; updated frequently.

Research integrity: subotage in Univ of Michigan, Ann Arbor

http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100929/full/467516a.html

It is essential to know the amount of springback for a given forming process, so that the process or the design of the tool can be modified to obtain the desired product shape. This requires a comprehensive understanding of loading and unloading processes, and determination of elastic constants with finite plastic deformation which, in turn, require precise determination of subsequent yield surfaces.

We call for contributions from mechanics community to 2011 MRS Spring Meeting Symposium Z: Nanoscale Electromechanics of Inorganic, Macromolecular, and Biological Systems

The abstract submission is open until Nov. 2, 2010, at http://mrsspring2011.abstractcentral.com/

More information about the symposium, including a list of invited speakers, can be found at

I have some problems with my matlab code in a 9 node shell
element each node has 5 DOFs. I found that stiffness matrix for each
element is symmetric, but after transformation to global coordinate
system, the transformed stiffness matrices and the resulted global
stiffness matrix of entire shell is nonsymmetric, where order of
transpose([k]) -[k] is approximately E-18.

Mass matrix also has
been antisymmetric after transformation and so I can't solve
characteristic equation to find eigenvalues needed for dynamic analysis.

Dear all,

Herewith I want to announc the release of CONTACT version 10.2.

The main changes with respect to earlier versions of the program are as follows:

Hi all,