Theoretical, Experimental, and Numerical Contributions to the Mechanics of Fluids and Solids

Foreword.- Paul M. Naghdi (1924-1994).- List of Publication of P. M. Naghdi.- I. Nonlinear and Linear Elasticity.- Interfacial and surface waves in pre-strained isotropic elastic media.- Deformations of an elastic, internally constrained material. Part 3: Small superimposed deformations and waves.- On axisymmetric solutions for compressible nonlinearly elastic solids.- On obtaining closed form solutions for compressible nonlinearly elastic materials.- Stress and the moment-twist relation in the torsion of a cylinder with a nonconvex stored energy function.- Conditions on the elastic strain-energy function.- On the stability of a biaxially stressed elastic material with a free surface under variations in surface shape.- Expressions for the gradients of the principal stresses and their application to interior stress concentration.- On the number of distinct elastic constants associated with certain anisotropic elastic symmetries.- Stress and deformation in moderately anisotropic inhomogeneous elastic plates.- II. General Continuum Mechanics.- Remarks concerning forces on line defects.- On entropy and incomplete information in irreversible heat flow.- A system of hyperbolic conservation laws with frictional damping.- Numerical solution of two- and three-dimensional thermomechanical problems using the theory of a Cosserat point.- The relaxation of a decompressed inclusion.- The common conjugate directions of plane sections of two concentric ellipsoids.- III. Plasticity.- Stable response in the plastic range with local instability.- A work-hardening elastic-plastic wedge.- Finite elastic-plastic deformations of an ideal fibre-reinforced beam bent around a cylinder.- The elasto-plastic plate with a hole: Analytical solutions derived by singular perturbations.- Exact stress states and velocity fields in bicrystals at the yield point in channel die compression.- IV. Biological and New Technological Materials.- Stress, strain, growth, and remodeling of living organisms.- Experimental determination of tribological properties of ultra-thin solid films.- The hierarchy of microstructures for low density materials.- Swelling and shrinking of polyelectrolytic gels.- V. Fluid Mechanics.- On gravity waves in channels.- Bragg scattering of water waves by Green-Naghdi theory.- Water waves over a sloping beach in a rotating frame.- An approximate theory for velocity profiles in the near wake of a flat plate.- On the motion of a non-rigid sphere in a perfect fluid.- An adaptive hp-finite element method for incompressible free surface flows of generalized Newtonian fluids.- Viscoelastic effects in film casting.- Experimental evidence for intense vortical structures in grid turbulence.- Evaluation of Reynolds stress turbulence closures in compressible homogeneous shear flow.- A structural theory of anisotropic turbulence.- VI. Dynamics.- The effect of damping on the stability of gyroscopic pendulums.- Dynamical systems considered as ordering machines.- On the advantages of a geometrical viewpoint in the derivation of Lagrange's equations for a rigid continuum.- Author Index.