This volume is a collection of studies in the development of Applied mechanics, dedicated to Professor Raymond D. Mindlin of Columbia University by his former students, edited by George Herrmann and published by Pergamon Press in 1974.
Table of Contents
* Preface (George Herrmann) * List of Publications of R.D. Mindlin * Remarks on the Past, Present, and Likely Future of Photoelasticity (D.C. Drucker, J. Duffy, and E.A. Fox) * Development of the Three-dimensional Theory of Elasticity (L.E. Goodman) * Generalized Elastic Continua (H.F. Tiersten and J.L. Bleustein) * Bodies in Contact with Applications to Granular Media (H. Deresiewicz) * Waves and Vibrations in Isotropic and Anisotropic Plates (Y.-H. Pao and R.K. Kaul) * Vibrations and Wave Propagation in Rods (H.D. McNiven and J.J. McCoy) * Piezoelectric Crystals and Electro-Elasticity (P.C.Y. Lee and D.W. Haines) * Lattice Theories and Continuum Mechanics (D.C. Gazis and C. Gong)