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Author(s):
C. Truesdell
Title:
A first course in rational continuum mechanics,
Additional book information:
Pure and Applied Mathematics, Academic Press, New York, San Francisco, London, 1977, xxiii + 280 pp., $23.00
References:
- 1.
- C. Truesdell, Continuum mechanics, vols. I-IV, Gordon and Breach, New York, 1965.
- 2.
- J. Serrin, The concepts of thermodynamics, Contemporary Developments, Continuum Mechanics and Partial Differential Equations (G. M. de La Peña, L. A. Medeiros (eds.)), North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1978, pp. 411-451. MR 519653
- 3.
- C. Truesdell, Rational thermodynamics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1972. MR 347187
- 4.
- C. Truesdell and S. Bharatha, The concepts and logic of classical thermodynamics as a theory of heat engines, rigorously developed upon the foundation laid by S. Carnot and F. Reech, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1977. MR 471650
- 5.
- M. E. Gurtin, Thermodynamics and stability, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 59 (1975), 63-96. MR 479061
- 6.
- C. Truesdell, Some challenges offered to analysis by rational thermodynamics, Contemporary Developments in Continuum Mechanics and Partial Differential Equations (G. M. de La Peña and L. A. Medeiros (eds.)), North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1978, pp. 495-603. MR 519658
- 7.
- S. Antman, Ordinary differential equations of non-linear elasticity. I, II, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 61 (1976), 307-393. MR 418580
- 8.
- J. M. Ball, Convexity conditions and existence theorems in non-linear elasticity, Arch. Rational Mech. Anal. 63 (1977), 337-403. MR 475169
- 9.
- J. M. Ball, Constitutive inequalities and existence theorems in non-linear elastostatics, Nonlinear Analysis and Mechanics, vol. I (R. J. Knops (ed.)), Pitman Publishers, New York, 1978.
- 10.
- C. B. Morrey, Multiple integrals in the calculus of variations, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1966. MR 202511
- 11.
- C. Truesdell, The elements of continuum mechanics, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1966. MR 214315
- 12.
- C. Truesdell and R. A. Toupin, The classical field theories, Handbuch der Physik, Band III/l, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1960. MR 118005
- 13.
- C. Truesdell and W. Noll, The non-linear field theories of mechanics, Handbuch der Physik, Band III/3, Springer-Verlag, Berlin and New York, 1965. MR 193816
Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
Frederick
Bloom
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
5
(1981),
359-364.
DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-1981-14957-0
PII:
S 0273-0979(1981)14957-0
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