Models of Mechanics

Models of Mechanics
This textbook on models and modeling in mechanics introduces a new unifying approach to applied mechanics: through the concept of the open scheme, a step-by-step approach to modeling evolves. The unifying approach enables a very large scope on relatively few pages: the book treats theories of mass points and rigid bodies, continuum models of solids and fluids, as well as traditional engineering mechanics of beams, cables, pipe flow and wave propagation.

A new universal approach to modelling in mechanicsA larger scope than existing texts on continuum mechanicsGives a step-by-step approach to modellingGives a platform for deriving new models of applied useNovel treatments of classical models off, e.g., pipe flow and beams