A selection of 26 original papers, some of them substantially revised after the workshop, discuss anisotropic elasticity and its applications in solid mechanics and applied mathematics. Considering elastostatics, elastodynamics, and constitutive relations, they discuss such topics as Green's functio

Anisotropic Elasticity offers for the first time a comprehensive survey of the analysis of anisotropic materials that can have up to twenty-one elastic constants. Focusing on the mathematically elegant and technically powerful Stroh formalism as a means to understanding the subject, the author tackles a broad range of key topics, including antiplane deformations, Green's functions, stress singularities in composite materials, elliptic inclusions, cracks, thermo-elasticity, and piezoelectric materials, among many others. Well written, theoretically rigorous, and practically oriented, the book will be welcomed by students and researchers alike.

The author, a leading Russian authority in the field of elasticity, has obtained some fundamental results in the investigation of a number of general problems in the mechanics of solids, the theory of shells, biomechanics, and the mechanics of elastomers. Fundamental theoretical investigations were combined with practical applications to real construction problems. This book deals with symmetry, linear anisotropic elasticity, constitutive equations, plane problems, anisotropic and reinforced shells, brittle fracture, Volterra's dislocations, etc. This important book is intended for students, engineers, and scientists specializing in various fields of structural analysis.

This book presents a modern and unconventional introduction to anisotropy. The first part presents a general description of Anisotropic Elasticity theories while the second part focuses on the polar formalism: the theoretical bases and results are completely developed along with applications to design problems of laminated anisotropic structures. The book is based on lectures on anisotropy which have been held at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris.

'Anisotropic Elasticity' offers for the first time a comprehensive survey of the analysis of anisotropic materials that can have up to twenty-one elastic constants. Focusing on the mathematically elegant and technically powerful Stroh formalism as a means to understanding the subject, the author tackles a broad range of key topics, including antiplane deformations, Green's functions, stress singularities in composite materials, elliptic inclusions, cracks, thermo-elasticity, and piezoelectric materials, among many others. Well written, theoretically rigorous, and practically oriented, the book will be welcomed by students and researchers alike.