Covers continuum mechanics, forces transmission, energy conservation, solid deformation, and tensor calculus, emphasizing the symmetry of principle strains and the geometric interpretation of eigen vectors.
Introduces fundamental concepts of engineering mechanics, materials classification, and basic mechanics vocabulary, along with the history of mechanics.
Covers the expression of the Kirchhoff-Saint Venant energy in a covariant setting and explores equilibrium equations for spherical shells and linear shell theory.