This website presents the principles of finite deformation continuum mechanics with many example applications to metals 
and incompressible viscoelastic materials (rubber). It can serve as lecture notes for a graduate level course in 
continuum mechanics for engineers interested in the subject.
  It is under development,
but will eventually contain information on linear and nonlinear fracture mechanics, as well as fatigue crack growth.
	
	A Note About The Web Technologies Used Here
	Two relatively new web technologies are used on these pages.  The first is
	
Scalable Vector Graphics, 
	or SVG.  Pages on this site will display SVG files in compatible browsers, and PNG files in 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.
	
	The second new technology 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 even SVG for that matter).  
	
MathJax
	requires only the following line of code in the <HEAD> segment of a webpage.
	
	<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjax/2.7.5/latest.js?config=TeX-MML-AM_CHTML"></script>
	
	
	It is then possible to program any math expression in the HTML source using the
	
LaTeX language.
	For example, typing 
\(\sigma_{ij}\) produces \( \sigma_{ij} \).
	
	I'm often asked what software I used to develop the webpages.  The answer is...
	the Vim editor (
www.vim.org).  
	Vim is the Windows-based version of the venerable Vi editor on Unix, and now 
	Linux systems.  I typed everything by hand.
	
	Bob McGinty
	February 2012