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9780874139914

The Mechanics Of Solids History and Evolution: A Festschrift in Honor of Arnold D. Kerr

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  • ISBN13:

    9780874139914

  • ISBN10:

    0874139910

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-04-01
  • Publisher: University of Delaware Press
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $121.00

Table of Contents

Prefacep. 7
Biography of Arnold Kerrp. 9
Publications of Arnold Kerrp. 11
Symposium schedulep. 19
Symposium remarksp. 23
Remarks by Michael J. Chajesp. 23
Remarks by Charles Thorntonp. 27
Symposium photographsp. 29
The evolution of contact mechanicsp. 31
Crack detection by laser-based techniquesp. 59
Evolution of buckling modes in continuously supported structures : from eigenfunctions to actual buckled shapesp. 77
History and lessons of a paradox associated with follower forcesp. 93
Engineering of railway tracksp. 109
Design ice forces and fracture scalingp. 139
Fracture analysis and size effects in failure of sea icep. 151
Follow that white concrete road : the evolution of concrete pavement analysisp. 171
History of sandwich structures and their analysesp. 199
The evolution of the concept of Green's function and its use in the mechanics of solidsp. 231
Dislocations as Green's functions in plane elasticityp. 241
On the mechanical behavior of carbon nanotubes in hexagonal arraysp. 263
Notes on contributorsp. 295
Indexp. 299
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