This website presents the principles of finite deformation continuum mechanics with many example applications to metals
and incompressible viscoelastic materials (rubber). Examples also cover both rectangular and cylindrical coordinates.
, Lawrence E. Malvern, 1969.
A Note About The Web Technologies Used Here
Two relatively new web technologies are used on these pages. The first technology is
Scalable Vector Graphics, or SVG.
Pages on this site will display SVG files on compatible browsers, and PNG files on incompatible ones.
The advantage of SVG over PNG is that SVG graphics can be scaled to any size without the onset of pixelization.
SVG files used here were created using
Inkscape,
an excellent graphics program available free on the internet
here.
Update: SVG is hopelessly broke on Firefox at the moment, so I've had to turn much of it off. Sigh...
The second new technology being used here is
MathJax, a Javascript based
display engine for mathematical equations programmed in the
LaTeX language.
MathJax eliminates the need to display equations as
GIF or PNG graphics files (or SVG for that matter).
MathJax
requires only the following line of code in the <HEAD> segment of a webpage.
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/MathJax.js?config=default"></script>
It is then possible to program any math expression in the HTML source using the
LaTeX language.
For example, typing
\(\sigma_{ij}\) produces \( \sigma_{ij} \).
