Download or read book Three-Dimensional Elasticity written by Philippe G. Ciarlet and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1994-01-19 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a thorough introduction to contemporary research in elasticity, and may be used as a working textbook at the graduate level for courses in pure or applied mathematics or in continuum mechanics. It provides a thorough description (with emphasis on the nonlinear aspects) of the two competing mathematical models of three-dimensional elasticity, together with a mathematical analysis of these models. The book is as self-contained as possible.