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Continuum mechanics is a vast subject in itself. Here, I intend to cover only the most basic elements of continuum mechanics of solids and structures and refer the interested reader to the above-mentioned books.
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Byskov, E. (2013). The Purpose of Continuum Mechanics. In: Elementary Continuum Mechanics for Everyone. Solid Mechanics and Its Applications, vol 194. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5766-0_1
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