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Prof. Allan Bower's On-line class notes:

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En175: Advanced Mechanics of Solids 

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En 222: Introduction to Solid Mechanics

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En 224: Linear Elasticity

General Continuum Mechanics Books

1.                  An Introduction to Continuum Mechanics,M. E. Gurtin, Academic Press, 1982.

2.                  An Introduction to the Mechanics of a Continuous Medium, L. Malvern, Prentice-Hall, 1969.

3.                  Introduction to Continuum Mechanics, W. M. Lai, D. Rubin and E. Krempl, Pergamon Press, 1978.

4.                  Continuum Mechanics P. Chadwick, George Allen and Unwin, 1976.

5.                  Continuum Mechanics:Consice Theory and Problems, P. Chadwick, Dover Reprint, 1999.

6.                  Continuum Mechanics, A.J.M. Spencer,  Longman, 1980.

7.                  The Non-Linear Field Theories of Mechanics, C. Truesdell and W. Noll,  in Encyclopedia of Physics, Vol. III/3, Springer, 1965.

Finite Deformation Elasticity Books

8.                  Nonlinear Problems of Elasticity, S.S. Antman, Springer-Verlag 1995.

9.                  Nonlinear Elastic Deformations, R.W. Ogden, John Wiley, 1984 (Dover reprint).

10.              Mathematical Elasticity, Vol. I, P.G. Ciarlet, North-Holland, 1988

11.              Mathematical Foundation of Elasticity, J.E. Marsden & T.J.R. Hughes, Prentice Hall, 1983 (Dover reprint).

12.              Introduction to Rational Elasticity, C.-C. Wang & C. Truesdell, Noordhoff, 1973.

13.              Boundary-Value Problems of Finite Elasticity, T. Valent, Springer-Verlag, 1988.

14.              Nonlinear Elasticity, Y.B. Fu & R.W. Ogden, Eds., Cambridge, 2001.

15.              Topics in Finite Elasticity, M.E. Gurtin, SIAM, 1981

16.              Finite Elasticity and Viscoelasticity, A.D. Drozdov, World Scientific, 1996.

17.              Nonlinear Continuum Mechanics for Finite Element Analysis, J. Bonet & R.D. Wood

18.              An Introduction to the Theory of Elasticity R. J. Atkin and N. Fox, , Longman, 1980.

 Small Strain Linear and Nonlinear Elasticity

19.              The Linear Theory of Elasticity, M. E. Gurtin, in Encyclopedia of Physics, Vol. VIa/1, Springer, 1965.

20.              Theory of Elasticity S. P. Timoshenko and J. N. Goodier, , McGraw-Hill, 1970.

21.              Advanced Mechanics of Materials, W. B. Bickford,  Addison-Wesley, 1998

22.              Theoretical Elasticty,  A. E. Green and W. Zerna, Dover Reprint, 1992.