Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics for Finite Element Analysis

by Dr Javier Bonet, Dr Richard D. Wood

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521838703

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Book Description

The first edition of this successful text considered nonlinear geometrical behavior and nonlinear hyperelastic materials, and the numerics needed to model such phenomena. By presenting both nonlinear continuum analysis and associated finite element techniques in one, Bonet and Wood provide, in the new edition of this successful text, a complete, clear, and unified treatment of these important subjects. New chapters dealing with hyperelastic plastic behavior are included, and the authors have thoroughly updated the FLagSHyP program, freely accessible at www.flagshyp.com.

Book Reviews

'... a unified introduction - can be recommended to postgraduate students and to researchers from mechanical, aerospace and civil engineering areas.' Zentralblatt für Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete

'The authors have succeeded in writing an excellent textbook - the book is absolutely recommended directly to students and scientists in the field of solid mechanics at universities.' K. Schweizerhof, ZAMM

About the Author

Javier Bonet is a Professor of Engineering and the Deputy Head of the School of Engineering at Swansea University, and a visiting professor at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in Spain. He has extensive experience of teaching topics in structural mechanics, including large strain nonlinear solid mechanics, to undergraduate and graduate engineering students. He has been active in research in the area of computational mechanics for over 25 years and has written over 60 papers and over 70 conference contributions on many topics within the subject and given invited, keynote and plenary lectures at numerous international conferences.

Richard D. Wood is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Civil and Computational Engineering Centre at Swansea University. He has over 20 years experience of teaching the course Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics for Finite Element Analysis at Swansea University, which he originally developed at the University of Arizona and also taught at IIT Roorkee, India and the Institute of Structural Engineering at the Technical University in Graz. Dr Wood's academic career has focused on finite element analysis, and he has written over 60 papers in international journals, and many chapter contributions, on topics related to nonlinear finite element analysis.

Customer Reviews

This is a very good introductory book to the subject of nonlinear continuum mechanics focusing on finite element applications. It fills the gap existing among different books treating this subject. The approach to Directional Derivative is quite general and very interesting. I would recommend this book for a first course in Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics.

The book is a nice pedagogic introduction to nonlinear elasticity. It lays out the principles clearly supported with good examples, something you won`t be able to find in many other books.

Some previous reviews criticizes the book for not covering anisotropy or plasticity, but the book is simply intended to cover the principles of large deformation elasticity. From that point of view, anisotropy is a case where you have the same formulas but more constants. And plasticity, as the name reveals, is NOT elasticity. There are plenty of plasticity models out there and interested reader should find the proper source for those. Unlike what a previous reviewer says, hyperelasticity is NOT "exceedengly simple", and is a fairly general form of elasticity. It is widely used in many engineering materials and covered in detail in this book.