This is a first year graduate textbook on linear elasticity being based on aone semester course taught by the author at the University of Michigan. It iswritten... » 

This is a first year graduate textbook on linear elasticity being based on aone semester course taught by the author at the University of Michigan. It iswritten with the practical engineering reader in mind dependence on previousknowledge of solid mechanics continuum mechanics or mathematics beingminimized. Most of the text should be readily intelligible to a reader with anundergraduate background of one or two courses in elementary strength ofmaterials and a rudimentary knowledge of partial differentiation. Emphasis isplaced on engineering applications of elasticity and examples are generallyworked through to final expressions for the stress and displacement fields inorder to explore the engineering consequences of the results. br The topicscovered are chosen with a view to modern research applications in fracturemechanics composite materials tribology and numerical methods. Thussignificant attention is given to crack and contact problems problemsinvolving interfaces between dissimilar media thermoelasticity singularasymptotic stress fields and threedimensional problems. br Problems suitablefor class use are included at the end of most of the chapters. These areexpressed wherever possible in the form they would arise in engineering i.e.as a body of a given geometry subjected to prescribed loading instead ofinviting the student to verify that a given candidate stress function isappropriate to the problem. The text is therefore written in such a way as toenable the student to approach such problems deductively. br A solutionsmanual is available directly from the author email jbarberengin.umich.edu. «