TY  - BOOK
AU  - Saxce,Géry de
TI  - Galilean mechanics and thermodynamics of continua
T2  - Mechanical engineering and solid mechanics series
SN  - 9781848216426
AV  - QA808.2 .S27 2016
U1  - 531.14 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - London, UK, Hoboken, NJ, USA
PB  - ISTE Ltd, John Wiley and Sons, Inc
KW  - Continuum mechanics
KW  - Laws of thermodynamics
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - This title proposes a unified approach to continuum mechanics which is consistent with Galilean relativity. Based on the notion of affine tensors, a simple generalization of the classical tensors, this approach allows gathering the usual mechanical entities - mass, energy, force, moment, stresses, linear and angular momentum - in a single tensor. Starting with the basic subjects, and continuing through to the most advanced topics, the authors' presentation is progressive, inductive and bottom-up. They begin with the concept of an affine tensor, a natural extension of the classical tensors. The simplest types of affine tensors are the points of an affine space and the affine functions on this space, but there are more complex ones which are relevant for mechanics - torsors and momenta. The essential point is to derive the balance equations of a continuum from a unique principle which claims that these tensors are affine-divergence free.--
ER  -