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Review title: Of academic interest only.
Product review: This book does a fine job of covering the topic of nonlinear kinematics and uses powerful techniques (push forward, pull back, Lie derivative, etc) to convey kinematics. However, the most important, widely used engineering materials (metals) are summarily ignored until they are covered in a mere ten pages in an appendix. That is, elastoplastic material behavior is barely touched upon. Therefore, things such as descetized kinematics, finite element formulations are virtually worthless to any worker in the field of metals. Only the exceedingly simplistic material behavior known as hyperelastic is covered in detail. As a worker in both mechanical engineering and finite element linear and nonlinear analyses, this book was a great disappointment relative to its usefulness.
