Overview
- A fully detailed and user-friendly exposition of all title problems and their solutions
- A new approach to old-fashioned problems
- A judicious choice of additional material, both in the first preparatory part and in the appendix, so as to make this book reasonably self-contained, irrespectively of its modest size
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications (SMIA, volume 204)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Preliminaries
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Front Matter
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Three Classical Problems: Flamant’s, Boussinesq’s, and Kelvin’s
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Front Matter
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Three Other Problems: Melan’s, Mindlin’s, and Cerruti’s
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book deals in a modern manner with a family of named problems from an old and mature subject, classical elasticity. These problems are formulated over either a half or the whole of a linearly elastic and isotropic two- or three-dimensional space, subject to loads concentrated at points or lines. The discussion of each problem begins with a careful examination of the prevailing symmetries, and proceeds with inverting the canonical order, in that it moves from a search for balanced stress fields to the associated strain and displacement fields.
The book, although slim, is  fairly well self-contained; the only prerequisite is a reasonable familiarity with linear algebra (in particular, manipulation of vectors and tensors) and with the usual differential operators of mathematical physics (gradient, divergence, curl, and Laplacian); the few nonstandard notions are introduced with care. Support material for all parts of the book is found in the final Appendix.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Elasticity for Geotechnicians
Book Subtitle: A Modern Exposition of Kelvin, Boussinesq, Flamant, Cerruti, Melan, and Mindlin Problems
Authors: Paolo Podio-Guidugli, Antonino Favata
Series Title: Solid Mechanics and Its Applications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01258-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-01257-5Published: 01 October 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34530-7Published: 23 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-01258-2Published: 20 September 2013
Series ISSN: 0925-0042
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7764
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 178
Number of Illustrations: 51 b/w illustrations
Topics: Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Geoengineering, Foundations, Hydraulics, Classical Mechanics