Applied Mechanics of Solids

     Allan F. Bower      

This electronic text summarizes the physical laws, mathematical methods, and computer algorithms that are used to predict the response of materials and structures to mechanical or thermal loading.

Topics include: the mathematical descriptions of deformation and forces in solids; constitutive laws; analytical techniques and solutions to linear elastic and elastic-plastic boundary value problems; the use and theory of finite element analysis; fracture mechanics; and the theory of deformable rods, plates and shells.

Over 500 practice problems are provided, as well as demonstration finite element codes in MATLAB.

A solution manual "Solved Problems in Applied Mechanics of Solids", A.F. Bower, CRC Press, (2026), is in press.

A new (2025) print edition of the text is available from Amazon.  The print version does not include the problem sets, which will be published (with solutions) in a separate companion volume. A pdf format copy of the problems (without solutions) may be downloaded here. This electronic web site will continue to be freely available, but does not currently include all the material in the new print edition of the text.