The Rational Spirit in Modern Continuum Mechanics
Publication year: 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4020-2308-8
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These papers cover a wide range of topics; what ties them together is the rational spirit. Clifford Truesdell, in his address upon receipt of a Birkhoff Prize in 1978, put the essence of modern continuum mechanics succinctly as “conceptual analysis, analysis not in the sense of the technical term but in the root meaning: logical criticism, dissection, and creative scrutiny.
Subject: Engineering, continuum mechanics, crystal, deformation, elasticity, materials science, thermodynamics
