Textbook: Materials Science and Engineering, by William Callister and David Rethwisch
Textbook: Vector Mechanics for Engineers: Statics , by by Ferdinand Beer, E.R.Johnston, David Mazurek
Textbook: Mechanics of Materials, by Ferdinand P. Beer
Online handouts can be found at: http://imechanica.org/node/7448 (Prof. Zhigang Suo)
Reference books and papers: Motions of Microscopic Surfaces in Materials (by Prof. Suo);
Introduction to Micromechanics and Nanomechanics (by Prof. Shaofan Li);
Micromechanics of Defects in Solids (by Prof. Toshio Mura)
Online handouts can be found at: http://imechanica.org/node/725 (Prof. Zhigang Suo)
Additional reading materials:
Elements of linear Elasticity, notes by Zhigang Suo
Solid Mechanics, notes by James Rice
Destrade, Michel, Jerry G. Murphy, and Giuseppe Saccomandi. "Simple shear is not so simple." International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics 47.2 (2012): 210-214.
Marcombe, R., Cai, S., Hong, W., Zhao, X., Lapusta, Y., & Suo, Z. (2010). A theory of constrained swelling of a pH-sensitive hydrogel. Soft Matter, 6(4), 784-793.
Zhu, J., Li, T., Cai, S., & Suo, Z. (2011). Snap-through expansion of a gas bubble in an elastomer. The Journal of Adhesion, 87(5), 466-481.
Cai, S., & Suo, Z. (2012). Equations of state for ideal elastomeric gels. EPL (Europhysics Letters), 97(3), 34009.
Liang, X., & Cai, S. (2015). Shape Bifurcation of a Spherical Dielectric Elastomer Balloon Under the Actions of Internal Pressure and Electric Voltage. Journal of Applied Mechanics, 82(10), 101002.
Topics in Finite Elasticity, by Morton E. Gurtin.
The Mechanics and Thermodynamics of Continua, by Morton E. Gurtin, Eliot Fried, Lallit Anand
Textbook: Essentials of Polymer Science and Engineering, by Paul C Painter & Michael M Coleman
Additional reading materials: The physics of rubber elasticity, by L.R.G. Treloar
Principles of polymer chemistry, by P.J. Flory
Polymer physics, by M. Rubinstein and R.H. Colby