Within the past few decades, there has been an accelerating development of methods for studying nonlinear equations. Nonlinear analysis offers exciting prospects for certain specific areas of nonlinear problems with continuum mechanics. The objective of this book is to carry out such studies for problems in nonlinear elasticity. This second edition is an enlarged, completely updated, and extensively revised version of the authoritative first edition. It is directed toward the scientist, engineer, and mathematician who wish to see careful treatments of precisely formulated problems. Each chapter contains a wealth of interesting, challenging, and tractable exercises.

Highlights the mathematical tools of nonlinear analysis through self-contained presentations Suitable for mathematicians and industry professionals studying nonlinear elasticity Contains chapter-level exercises & supplementary material

Inhalt
Background.- The Equations of Motion for Extensible Strings.- Elementary Problems for Elastic Strings.- Planar Steady-State Problems for Elastic Rods.- to Bifurcation Theory and its Applications to Elasticity.- Global Bifurcation Problems for Strings and Rods.- Variational Methods.- Theory of Rods Deforming in Space.- Spatial Problems for Rods.- Axisymmetric Equilibria of Shells.- Tensors.- 3-Dimensional Continuum Mechanics.- 3-Dimensional Theory of Nonlinear Elasticity.- Problems in Nonlinear Elasticity.- Large-Strain Plasticity.- General Theories of Rods.- General Theories of Shells.- Dynamical Problems.- Appendix. Topics in Linear Analysis.- Appendix. Local Nonlinear Analysis.- Appendix. Degree Theory.