Complex Variable Methods in Elasticity

Theplanestrainandgeneralizedplanestressboundaryvalueproblemsoflinearelasticityarethefocusofthisgraduate-leveltext,whichformulatesandsolvestheseproblemsbyemployingcomplexvariabletheory.Thetextpresentsdetailedde*ionsofthethreebasicmethodsthatrelyonseriesrepresentation,Cauchyintegralrepresentation,andthesolutionviacontinuation.Itsfive-parttreatmentcoversfunctionsofacomplexvariable,thebasicequationsoftwo-dimensionalelasticity,planeandhalf-planeproblems,regionswithcircularboundaries,andregionswithcurvilinearboundaries.Workedexamplesandsetsofproblemsappearthroughoutthetext.1971edition.26figures.