Stress and deformation : a handbook on tensors in geology / Gerhard Oertel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oertel, G. F., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geology--Mathematics.

Geology.

Vector analysis.

Strains and stresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Based on notes for a graduate course in structural geology at UCLA, this book is a review of the mathematics of vectors and of stress and strain, including finite strain.

Contents:

Contents; Symbols and Notation; Chapter 1. Vectors (Problems 1 to 20); Chapter 2. Fields (Problems 21 to 25); Chapter 3. Matter Tensors and Coordinate Transformations (Problems 26 to 75); Chapter 4. Stress (Problems 76 to 97); Chapter 5. Infinitesimal Strain (Problems 98 to 115); Chapter 6. Finite Strain (Problems 116 to 124); Chapter 7. Effects of Stress (Problems 125 to 135); Chapter 8. Strain History and Polar Decomposition (Problem 136); Answers; Summary of Formulæ; Appendix A. Elastic Parameters for Isotropic Bodies; Appendix B. Units of Stress; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H

IJ; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-756079-2

1-280-45103-3

9786610451036

1-4237-3550-1

0-19-535736-1

1-60256-033-1

OCLC:

228117793