Elementary Continuum Mechanics for Everyone, 2013
With Applications to Structural Mechanics
Solid Mechanics and Its Applications Series, Vol. 194

The book opens with a derivation of kinematically nonlinear 3-D continuum mechanics for solids.

Then the principle of virtual work is utilized to derive the simpler, kinematically linear 3-D theory and to provide the foundation for developing consistent theories of kinematic nonlinearity and linearity for specialized continua, such as beams and plates, and finite element methods for these structures.

A formulation in terms of the versatile Budiansky-Hutchinson notation is used as basis for the theories for these structures and structural elements, as well as for an in-depth treatment of structural instability.

Preface.- Introduction.- I Continuum Mechanics.- II Specialized Continua.- III Beams with Cross-Sections and Plates with Thickness.- IV Buckling.- V Introduction to the Finite Element Method.- VI Mathematical Preliminaries.- Index.

The author's distinctive, personal style of writing
combines rigorous scientific methods and precise
results with a relaxed pedagogical approach that
is very much a feature and an added benefit of
this work.

Curriculum Vitae for Esben Byskov
March 11, 2013

1 Personal Data

Born July 14, 1941 in Copenhagen.

Languages: Danish and American English.

2 Degrees

1965 M.Sc., Technical University of Denmark.

1970 Ph.D., Technical University of Denmark.

1991 Doctor Technices, Technical University of Denmark.

3 Jobs and Experience

1965–67 National Service in the Civil Defense Corps. Officer.

1965–98 At the Technical University of Denmark, Department of Structural Engineering. 1965–

67: Part-time Assistant Professor, 1967–69 Ph.D.-student, 1969–98: Associate Professor.

1975–76 Honorary Research Fellow at Division of Engineering and Applied Physics, Harvard

University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

1985 Visiting Professor at Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics,

The University of Texas at Austin.

1998– Professor at Department of Civil Engineering, Aalborg University. Since 2007 Professor

Emeritus.

4 Examples of Professional Activities

1971–75 Member of the Board of Danish Society for Structural Science and Engineering.

1989–96 Chairman of the Faculty Council for Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark.

1977–

2007

Member of the Scientific Council of Danish Center for Applied Mathematics and Me-

chanics (DCAMM), with a break 1999–2000.

2002–06 Head of Department, Department of Building Technology and Structural Engineering,

Aalborg University.

5 Selected Scientific Publications

[S–1] Esben Byskov, “The calculation of Stress IntensityFactors Using the Finite Element

Method with Cr