Table of Contents

Preface.- 1: Introduction.- 2: Geometry and Kinematics of Deformation.- 3: Mechanics of Stresses.- 4: Mathematical Models in Mechanics of Deformable Solids.- 5: General Equations of the Theory of Elasticity. Formulation of Problems.- 6: Principles and General Theorems of the Theory of Elasticity. Computation Methods.- 7: Introduction to the Theory of Cosserat type Bodies.- 8: Theory of Concentrated Loads.- 9: Elastic Space. Elastic Half-space.- 10:  Elastic Eights-space. Elastic Quarter-space.- 11: Elastic Parallelepiped. Elastic Strip. Elastic Layer. Thick Plate.- 12: Dynamical Problems of Elastic Bodies.- 13: Particular Cases of States of Strain and Stress.- 14: Anisotropic and Non-homogeneous Bodies.- 15: Introduction to Thermoelasticity.- 16: Introduction to Linear Viscoelasticity.- A: Appendix.- 1: Elements of Tensor Calculus.- 2: Curvilinear Coordinates.- 3: Elements of the Theory of Distributions.- 4: Notations and Integrals.- Subject Index.- Name Index.

About the Author

Petre P. Teodorescu, 1929, is currently a consulting professor at the Faculty of Mathematics, University of Bucharest, Romania, where he also received his scientific education. During his academic career he was awarded the "Gh. Titeica" Prize of the Romanian Academy in 1966, 20 scientific grants and several honorary titles, and he also became Member of the Academy of Technical Sciences of Romania in 1999, and President of the Romanian section of GAMM (Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik) in 2002.
He is a member of the American Mathematical Society and the European Mechanics Society as well as various other societies, and served on the editorial boards of Mechanics Research, Meccanica, and Letters in Applied and Engineering Sciences, among others. He has a long history of teaching activities, research, participation and organization of international conferences and scientific writing, with 255 journal papers to his name. His fields of expertise encompass Mechanics of Deformable Solids, Mathematical Methods of Calculus in Mechanics.
With Springer Professor Teodorescu published the 3-volume work Mechanical Systems, Classical Models and co-authored two further titles.

Reviews

From the reviews:“The book contains 16 chapters, 18 references, 4 appendices, a subject index and an author index. It is well-known that the theory of elasticity is an introduction to the mechanics of deformable solids, and this justifies a deep consideration of the classical elasticity undertaken in this book. … The book includes many elaborated problems and can be of interest to mathematicians, physicists, engineers and students.” (Elena Gavrilova, zbMATH, Vol. 1276, 2014)