Abstract
At the beginning, the book was conceived as a textbook for the classical course in
solid mechanics. However, at the exit, it turned out that most of the book was written
in the form of a monograph, contains many references and broadly represents the
authors’ developments. In addition, the book describes the main achievements of the
modern development of the mechanics of elastic and inelastic materials. The book is
intended not only for getting interested persons familiar with the primary results of
mechanics development, from the first Coulomb experiments to the late twentieth
or the early twenty-first century, but also for stimulation of practical use of new
achievements of the deformation theory in geomechanics, mining, and construction
industry. The book is presented for senior students majoring in structural analysis
and experts in the field of solid mechanics. The book materials can be used as a
topic for theses, and the solutions given are the methodological basis for students
and post-graduates of the “Construction,” “Applied Mechanics” courses, etc.
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