Computational Continuum Mechanics

This third edition revises and extends a well-known text on the fundamentals of continuum mechanics and the computational methods used to model it. It addresses modeling of both small and large deformations, showing how complex models are built and how algorithms can be derived from core continuum mechanics principles, with many worked examples along the way.

A major focus is absolute nodal coordinate formulation (ANCF), which the author presents as a leading route to combining geometry and analysis when studying how materials move and respond under changing conditions. The book also looks ahead to simulation software that is merging CAD, finite element and multibody system codes into a single computing environment, and it gives detailed treatment of the formulations needed for that integration.

The book is intended both as a course text for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students and as a reference for researchers, practicing engineers and scientists. Its readership spans computational mechanics, biomechanics, computational biology, multibody system dynamics and other fields that rely on general continuum mechanics theory.