The Linearized Theory of Elasticity

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Summary: An EXCELLENT textbook for people new to the subject!
Review: I am a civil engineering graduate student who took theory of elasticity this semester. I had attempted to learn the subject from a variety of other references, but became frustrated by the incomplete treatment given in most other texts. Slaughter's book develops all topics (including tensor calculus) as needed and explains the solutions to a wide variety of the most common problems in a clear and easy to follow manner. Topics include airy stress functions, Saint Venant warping functions, kinematics, constitutive laws, and the governing equations in two and three dimensions. This book is an absolute MUST for anyone attempting to learn the linearized theory of elasticity!!!