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Elasticity: Tensor, Dyadic, and Engineering Approaches (Dover Civil and Mechanical Engineering)

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This book concisely goes through the derivations of elasticity; it is well written and relatively easy to read for a textbook. The numerous tables and flowcharts make this book a very good quick look up reference.

As I am coming at elasticity from another background, I found that a quick review of this book allows me to read and understand papers in this field much more clearly.

The "rosetta stone" table for tensor and vector/dyadic notation of common operators in one of the later chapters is quite useful. I don't think I have seen that spelled out anywhere else. Most books just use one convention or the other.

Another two good backgound chapters are the summary of the introduction of Jeffreys Cartesian Tensors book and a chapter summarizing formulas from general curvilinear coordinates.

It is really a good book for this prize. Though there are plenty of books on theory of elasticity subject, there is no book concisely explains the subject like this one. It is meant for a first time learner also helps little bit to understand the complex notations in tensor, dyadic approach for elasticity problems. Overall it is a good buy for a beginner who ants to learn the elasticity subject from the scratch. I would strongly suggest this book for both senior and graduate students who are interested in theory of elasticity.

Little hard to understand type of textbook but once you taste you really like it. It is a great book if you wanna learn Elastcity.