
Mechanics Today
Pergamon Mechanics Today Series
- 1st Edition - May 9, 2014
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Editor: S. Nemat-Nasser
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 7 3 2 0 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 8 3 1 - 8 9 0 1 - 7
Mechanics Today, Volume 5 contains some of the papers presented at a symposium to honor Eric Reissner, held at the University of California in San Diego, on June 23, 1978, under… Read more
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Mechanics Today, Volume 5 contains some of the papers presented at a symposium to honor Eric Reissner, held at the University of California in San Diego, on June 23, 1978, under the sponsorship of the Office of Naval Research. The symposium provided a forum for discussing various topics related to mechanics, from the pseudo-elasticity of living tissues and compression of spherical cells to kinematically unstable space frameworks. Reissner's equations for sandwich plates are also considered. Comprised of 36 chapters, this volume begins with an analysis of the state of stress near the boundary of a thick plate by means of "end solutions" obtained from Reissner's sheaf deformation plate theory. A deformable primary reflecting surface composed of an array of relatively small diameter circular elements is then described. The discussion then turns to the "Taylor instability" of the surface of an elastic-plastic plate; free vibration spectrum structure of a shell of revolution; and the momentum-balance method in earthquake engineering. Subsequent chapters focus on the intrinsic equations of shell theory with some applications; stress analysis in plasticity; density-wave theory of the spiral structure of galaxies; and a mixture theory for wave propagation in anisotropic angle-ply laminates. This book will be of interest to engineers and physicists.
Dedication
Contributors
Preface
Contents of Volume 1
Contents of Volume 2
Contents of Volume 3
Contents of Volume 4
I On the "End Problem" for Thick Rectangular Plates
II Aiming an Electromagnetic Beam by Bending the Segments of a Large Reflecting Surface: A Parameter Study
III "Taylor Instability" of the Surface of an Elastic-Plastic Plate
IV On Pseudo-Elasticity of Living Tissues
V Free Vibration Spectrum Structure of a Shell of Revolution
VI Applicability of Floquet-Type Solutions to Bounded Layered Composites George Herrmann
VII Kinematically Unstable Space Frameworks
VIII The Momentum-Balance Method in Earthquake Engineering
IX An Elastic Porous Molecule Model for the Molecular Dynamics of Polymer Liquids
X The Intrinsic Equations of Shell Theory with Some Applications
XI Self-Consistent Scheme in Random Media Elasticity—Exact or Only Approximate?
XII Compression of Spherical Cells
XIII Progress and Prospects of Stress Analysis in Plasticity
XIV Stability Analysis of Nonconservative Systems Via Energy Considerations
XV A Non-Gradient Theory for Premixed Turbulent Flames
XVI Density-Wave Theory of Spiral Structure of Galaxies
XVII On a Singular Perturbation Problem Arising in Chemical Separation Studies Pauline Mann-Nachbar
XVIII Sturm-Liouville Inverse Eigenvalue Problems
XIX The Second Painlevé Transcendent: A Nonlinear Airy Function
XX On Reissner's Equations for Sandwich Plates
XXI A Mixture Theory for Wave Propagation in Anisotropic Angle-Ply Laminates
XXII On Edge-Zone Solutions and Error Bounds in the Asymptotic Theory of Shells
XXIII Variational Methods for Eigenvalue Problems with Discontinuous Coefficients
XXIV Reissner's Principle in Finite Element Formulations
XXV Crack Paths in Sheets Reinforced with Two Families of Inextensible Fibers
XXVI Some Reflections on Material Stability
XXVII The Cylindrical Shell Loaded by a Concentrated Normal
XXVIII The Role of Experimentation in Shell Research (Mirabile Dictu—Mirabile Visu)
XXIX An Improved Approximate Theory for the Bending of Laminated Plates Paul Seide
XXX On Uniqueness for the Traction Boundary-Value Problem of Linear Elastostatics
XXXI Six Different Stress Functions for Membranes of Revolution
XXXII Asymptotic Solutions Without Special Functions for Steep and Shallow Shells
XXXIII The Dimpling of Spherical Caps
XXXIV A Note on the Principle of Stationary Complementary Energy in Nonlinear Elasticity
XXXV On Axisymmetric Deformations of Nonlinear Elastic Membranes
XXXVI An Asymptotic Analysis of the Layered Tube
List of Publications of Eric Reissner
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- Published: May 9, 2014
- Imprint: Pergamon
- Language: English
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