Solid Mechanics

BOOKS

• Madhukar Vable, Mechanics of Materials, Second Edition, Michigan Technological University http://www.me.mtu.edu/~mavable/MoM2nd.htm
•  Stephen Timoshenko, and S. Woinowsky-Krieger, Theory of plates and shells, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1959, 580p, http://155.207.34.6/files/Timoshenko.pdf

PEOPLE

• Ted Belytschko, Walter P. Murphy Professor and McCormick Professor,  Northwestern University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, http://www.tam.northwestern.edu/people/belytchko.html
• Tayfun E. Tezduyar, James F. Barbour Professor in Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, http://www.tafsm.org/~tezduyar/ 
• Thomas JR Hughes, Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Computational and Applied Mathematics, http://users.ices.utexas.edu/~hughes/
• Klaus-Jürgen Bathe, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, http://meche.mit.edu/people/index.html?id=10
• W.K. Liu,Walter P. Murphy Professor, Northwestern University, Department of Mechanical Engineering, http://www.tam.northwestern.edu/wkl/liu.html
• Emeritus Professor Gordon Williams, (Fracture Mechanics), http://www.imperial.ac.uk/AP/faces/pages/read/Home.jsp?person=g.williams
•  Eugenio Oñate Ibañez de Navarra, Director of International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering (CIMNE), http://www.cimne.com/eo/spacehome/1/0#
•  David J. Benson,  Professor, Structural Engineering, UC San Diego http://www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu/faculty/faculty_bios/index.sfe?fmp_recid=63
• Ken P. Chong, National Institute of Standards and Technology [NIST] , George Washington University, 
• Yoichiro Matsumoto, Executive Vice President / Vice-president / Professor, Mechanobioengineering, Tokyo, Fluid, multiphase, http://www.bioeng.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/faculty/27_matsumoto.html
•  Shih Choon Fong, ex-President NUS, nonlinear fracture mechanics and computational methods for fracture analyses
• Allan F. Bower, also have free code in Maple, Matlab, Fortran http://solidmechanics.org/    

Award

• Ted Belytschko Applied Mechanics Award
•  O. C. Zienkiewicz Medal
•  The world's most highly cited engineering researchers

TERMS

• Neo-Hookean solid, hyperelastic material model
• Mooney–Rivlin solid
• Finite Strain Theory/ Large Strain Theory/ Large Deformation Theory