UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ME 185 P. M. NAGHDI’S NOTES ON CONTINUUM MECHANICS 2001Preface (1924-1994) for a first course on ‘These classnotes were developed by Professor Paul M. Nai ical Engineering Department con- continuum mechanics, which has been offered in the Mec! tinuously since 1960. It was originally listed as ME289A, "Foundations of the Theory of Con- tinuous Media 1," but after a few years became ME185, "Introduction to Continuum Mechan- ics." The course offers a concise, rigorous, elegant, and general treatment of the mechanics of deformable continua. The enroliment has traditionally been incoming graduate students plus some advanced undergraduates. ‘These notes first appeared in hand-written mimeographed form and were subsequently typewrit- ten, and later digitized. A few minor corrections have been made from time to time J. Casey Berkeley January 2001UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA Department of Mechanical Engineering MEI85, A List of General References Cartesian Tensors, by Sir Harold Jeffreys, Cambridge University Press, 1952 [Ist ed., 1931, 7th impression 1969}. Schaum’s Outline Series - Theory and Problems of Continuum Mechanics, by G. E. Mase, McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1970. Chapters 1-7 of Mechanics, by E. A. Fox, Harper & Row, 1967. Continuum Mechanics, by Y. C. Fung, Prentice-Hall Inc., 1969. Continuum Mechanics, by P. G. Hodge, Jr., McGraw-Hill, 1970. Mechanics of Continua, by A. C. Eringen, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1967. Continuum Mechanics, by P. Chadwick, G. Allen & Unwin Ltd., London, 1976, (Dover, 1999). Continuum Mechanics, by A.J.M. Spencer, Longman Group Ltd., London, 1980. An Introduction to the Theory of Elasticity, by R. J. Atkin and N. Fox, Longman Inc., New York, 1980.