| List of illustrations | p. viii |
| Prologue | p. xiii |
| Modelling solids | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Hooke's law | p. 2 |
| Lagrangian and Eulerian coordinates | p. 3 |
| Strain | p. 4 |
| Stress | p. 7 |
| Conservation of momentum | p. 10 |
| Linear elasticity | p. 11 |
| The incompressibility approximation | p. 13 |
| Energy | p. 14 |
| Boundary conditions and well-posedness | p. 16 |
| Coordinate systems | p. 19 |
| Exercises | p. 24 |
| Linear elastostatics | p. 28 |
| Introduction | p. 28 |
| Linear displacements | p. 29 |
| Antiplane strain | p. 37 |
| Torsion | p. 39 |
| Multiply-connected domains | p. 42 |
| Plane strain | p. 47 |
| Compatibility | p. 68 |
| Generalised stress functions | p. 70 |
| Singular solutions in elastostatics | p. 82 |
| Concluding remark | p. 93 |
| Exercises | p. 93 |
| Linear elastodynamics | p. 103 |
| Introduction | p. 103 |
| Normal modes and plane waves | p. 104 |
| Dynamic stress functions | p. 121 |
| Waves in cylinders and spheres | p. 124 |
| Initial-value problems | p. 132 |
| Moving singularities | p. 138 |
| Concluding remarks | p. 143 |
| Exercises | p. 143 |
| Approximate theories | p. 150 |
| Introduction | p. 150 |
| Longitudinal displacement of a bar | p. 151 |
| Transverse displacements of a string | p. 152 |
| Transverse displacements of a beam | p. 153 |
| Linear rod theory | p. 158 |
| Linear plate theory | p. 162 |
| Von Karman plate theory | p. 172 |
| Weakly curved shell theory | p. 177 |
| Nonlinear beam theory | p. 187 |
| Nonlinear rod theory | p. 195 |
| Geometrically nonlinear wave propagation | p. 198 |
| Concluding remarks | p. 204 |
| Exercises | p. 205 |
| Nonlinear elasticity | p. 215 |
| Introduction | p. 215 |
| Stress and strain revisited | p. 216 |
| The constitutive relation | p. 221 |
| Examples | p. 233 |
| Concluding remarks | p. 239 |
| Exercises | p. 239 |
| Asymptotic analysis | p. 245 |
| Introduction | p. 245 |
| Antiplane strain in a thin plate | p. 246 |
| The linear plate equation | p. 248 |
| Boundary conditions and Saint-Venant's principle | p. 253 |
| The von Karman plate equations | p. 261 |
| The Euler-Bernoulli plate equations | p. 267 |
| The linear rod equations | p. 273 |
| Linear shell theory | p. 278 |
| Concluding remarks | p. 282 |
| Exercises | p. 283 |
| Fracture and contact | p. 287 |
| Introduction | p. 287 |
| Static brittle fracture | p. 288 |
| Contact | p. 309 |
| Concluding remarks | p. 320 |
| Exercises | p. 321 |
| Plasticity | p. 328 |
| Introduction | p. 328 |
| Models for granular material | p. 330 |
| Dislocation theory | p. 337 |
| Perfect plasticity theory for metals | p. 344 |
| Kinematics | p. 358 |
| Conservation of momentum | p. 360 |
| Conservation of energy | p. 360 |
| The flow rule | p. 362 |
| Simultaneous elasticity and plasticity | p. 364 |
| Examples | p. 365 |
| Concluding remarks | p. 370 |
| Exercises | p. 372 |
| More general theories | p. 378 |
| Introduction | p. 378 |
| Viscoelasticity | p. 379 |
| Thermoelasticity | p. 388 |
| Composite materials and homogenisation | p. 391 |
| Poroelasticity | p. 408 |
| Anisotropy | p. 413 |
| Concluding remarks | p. 417 |
| Exercises | p. 417 |
| Epilogue | p. 426 |
| Orthogonal curvilinear coordinates | p. 428 |
| References | p. 440 |
| Index | p. 442 |
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