SOLID MECHANICS

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1 SOLID MECHANICS James R. Rice School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA Original version: October 1994 This revision: February 2010 Downloadable at: TABLE OF CONTENTS provided on last three pages, pp. 87-89 INTRODUCTION The application of the principles of mechanics to bulk matter is conventionally divided into the mechanics of fluids and the mechanics of solids. The entire subject is often called continuum mechanics, particularly when we adopt the useful model of matter as being continuously divisible, making no reference to its discrete structure at microscopic length scales well below those of the application or phenomenon

• solid mechanics
• section along the length of a beam
• simplified analysis of vibration of an elastic bell as an array of annular beams
• normal stress
• deformation
• crack
• strain
• material
• theory
• 3 materials
• materials