TY - BOOK ID - 38018273 TI - Elasticity AU - Barber, J.R. AU - SpringerLink (Online service) PY - 2004 SN - 1280537841 9786610537846 0306483955 PB - Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Elasticity KW - Mechanics. KW - Structural analysis (Engineering) KW - Physics. KW - Mechanics, Applied. KW - Geotechnical engineering. KW - Classical Mechanics. KW - Solid Mechanics. KW - Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences. KW - Engineering, Geotechnical KW - Geotechnics KW - Geotechnology KW - Engineering geology KW - Applied mechanics KW - Engineering, Mechanical KW - Engineering mathematics KW - Classical mechanics KW - Newtonian mechanics KW - Physics KW - Dynamics KW - Quantum theory UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:38018273 AB - Since the first edition of this book was published, there have been major improve- ™ ™ ments in symbolic mathematical languages such as Maple and Mathematica and this has opened up the possibility of solving considerably more complex and hence interesting and realistic elasticity problems as classroomexamples. It also enables the student to focus on the formulation of the problem (e. g. the appropriate governing equations and boundary conditions) rather than on the algebraic manipulations, with a consequent improvement in insight into the subject and in motivation. During the past 10 years I have developed files in Maple and Mathematica to facilitate this p- cess, notably electronic versions of the Tables in the present Chapters 19 and 20 and of the recurrence relations for generating spherical harmonics. One purpose of this new edition is to make this electronic material available to the reader through the Kluwer website www. elasticity. org. I hope that readers will make use of this resource and report back to me any aspects of the electronic material that could benefit from improvement or extension. Some hints about the use of this material are contained in Appendix A. Those who have never used Maple or Mathematica will find that it takes only a few hours of trial and error to learn how to write programs to solve boundary value problems in elasticity. ER -