title: Foundations of Solid Mechanics (International Series in Dynamics)
author: Y. C. Fung
description: The only text available which embraces the entire field of solid mechanics, including elasticity, viscoelasticity, plasticity, thermodynamics, thermoelasticity, and wave propagation.
zlib_text:   
  Solid Mechanics and Its Applications
  Series Editor: G.M.L. Gladwell
  Continuum 
  Mechanics Through 
  the Twentieth 
  Century
  Gérard A. Maugin
  A Concise Historical Perspective
  
  Solid Mechanics and Its Applications
  Volume 196
  Series Editor
  G. M. L. Gladwell
  Department of Civil Engineering
  University of Waterloo
  Waterloo, ON
  Canada
  For further volumes:
  http://www.springer.com/series/6557
  
  Aims and Scope of the Series
  The fundamental questions arising in mechanics are: Why?, How?, and How much?
  The aim of this series is to provide lucid accounts written by authoritative
  researchers giving vision and insight in answering these questions on the subject of
  mechanics as it relates to solids.
  The scope of the series covers the entire spectrum of solid mechanics. Thus it
  includes the foundation of mechanics; variational formulations; computational
  mechanics; statics, kinematics and dynamics of rigid and elastic bodies: vibrations
  of solids and structures; dynamical systems and chaos; the theories