Review of tensor algebra – tensor analysis – concept of continuum – kinematics of a deformable body – deformation and strain – motion and flow – analysis of stress-stress tensors – conservation laws, mass and momentum conservation – continuum thermodynamics – first and second laws applied to a continuum – Clausius-Duhem inequality – constitutive relations – applications.

Same as Reference

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