Boundary Value Problems of Finite Elasticity: Local Theorems on Existence, Uniqueness, and Analytic Dependence on Data (Springer Tracts in Natural Philosophy)

The object of this book is the systematic exposition of recent work of the author's on boundary value problems of finite elasticity. These results concern an n-dimensional generalization of the three-dimensional elasticity which, aside from leading to a great many interesting mathematical situations, often shed light on certain aspects of the three-dimensional case. The book begins with a brief introduction to some general concepts, in order to show how the boundary value problems studied in the text arise. This is followed by the development of some technical material needed in the rest of the book. Subsequent chapters are devoted to obtaining theorems of existence, uniqueness and analytic dependence on the load, near special deformations for boundary value problems of place, and traction in finite elastostatics.