文档介绍：POROUS ELASTICITY
Lectures On The Elasticity Of Porous Materials
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An Application Of The Theory Of Mixtures
Ray M. Bowen
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
President Emeritus
Texas A&M University
Copyright Ray M. Bowen
Preface
This work was originally planned as a textbook exploiting the structure of the Theory of
Mixtures as the basis for the study of porous elasticity. The decision to write this book was made
approximately thirty years ago! At that time, I was a faculty member in Mechanical Engineering at
Rice University. It is an understatement to observe that it has taken awhile plete, even
partially, this project. I encountered a lot of diversions along the way. Not the least of which was
an eight year period where I served as President of Texas A&M University. Prior to that time, I
was a Dean of Engineering at Kentucky, an administrator at the National Science Foundation and a
Provost and Interim President at Oklahoma State University. During my time as an administrator, I
never lost my ambition to prepare this textbook. On occasion, during periods of relative calm or, at
the other extreme, during periods of great stress, I would fort in returning to my
manuscript. It would take someone not trained in Engineering to understand why I would find
comfort thinking about this book when caught up in the tangles of university administration.
When pleted my term as President of Texas A&M University, I decided that I should
spend the final years of my career back in the classroom teaching Mechanical Engineering and
Mathematics. I have experienced the good fortune of two great and generous departments at Texas
A&M willing to allow me to teach a variety of subjects in my areas of interests. It has been a
joyous experience.
In addition to my teaching, I have revised my books on Vectors and Tensors, written with
C.-C. Wang, and my Continuum Mechanics textbook. These books, of course, ar